If You Can Imagine It, We Can

With The Advent Of Digital Imaging I Made The Transition From Trying To Figure Out How To Do Things To Creating Objects, Characters And The Whole Cloth. It Kind Of Freed Up The Analytical Part Of My Brain And I Had The Opportunity To Use More Of The Creative Side Of My Brain For How Things Interact With Light And Integrate Into Stories.

I Come From An Era When We Had To Figure Out How To Bolt A Camera To A Motorcycle Or An Airplane Or Dig A Hole And Find A Canyon Deep Enough To Repel Into It So That We Can Capture Images That Were Real.

George Lucas Wanted This Moving Camera For All Of The Photography In Star Wars. He Was Willing To Take A Risk With The Concepts That I Advanced With Regard To Ways For Doing That.

Digital Imaging Has Untied Our Hands With Regards To Technical Limitations. We No Longer Have To Be Arbiters Of Technology; We Get To Participate In The Interpretation Of Technology Into Creative Content.

I Think That Era Of Mechanically Figuring Out Of How To Bring A Particular Evocative Image To The Screen Was A Really Important Part Of My Education.