Steve "Spaz" Williams - Jurassic Park Genius! (oh, and so much more)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Innovator, creative visionary, technical wizard, extraordinary animator, cartoon-character - all have been used to describe 'larger-than-life' CG modeler & animator, now director & educator, Steve "Spaz" Williams. Spaz's uncanny ability to create realistic digital characters while understanding highly technical computer processes caught the attention of ILM more than 25 years ago and his work is, to this day, regarded as revolutionary.
Just have a look at Jurassic Park (1993) and you'll see the then ground-breaking dinosaur still holds up strong today as an incredible, realistic CG character (done well before any software was developed to make the task manageable).
Chief Modeler & Animator on The Abyss, Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park and Visual Effects Supervisor, Second Unit Director and Executive Producer on Spawn, Williams' career is full of CGI 'firsts'.
He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his contribution to The Mask. "Steve Williams: Wizard of Awe" delves into Williams' personal life to find out what lies beneath his larger than life character.
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Back in the 90's I would read about him. Guy in College I knew met him and I was so jealous. I was in Toronto going to design school walking by the Alias building every day on my way to school. While not a full time animator, he inspired me to go into a career of computer graphics. Jurassic Punk made me sad at how he became a cog in the industry and inevitably was replaced by a subordinate that could be tamed. A genuine talent and rebel rouser this guy is.
Absolutely. A genuine talent, total rebel, and all 'round great guy 🙂
Get ready for this to be revisited after that documentary is released.
This guy is awesome. Livin the life
Genius rebels often share similar journeys…´Captain oh my Captain’…
My co-workers today worked with Spaz at ILM back at the day.
Wow. I bet they have some stories to tell!
@@JourneysLaurenMillar They sure do.
he is a modern version of John Dykstra
John Dykstra 2.0
Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks Flo, appreciate the comment!
This is amazing! Thanks alot
Glad you like it!
Good time machine!)
As a guy of a certain age
I so fell for your hair the second I saw you.
But I came for the show. Omg it would take a lifetime to react properly to what you captured.
Kudos excelsior über alles.
God I am so loving his car with twelve minutes to go.
If you have more absolutely wonderful mature content to release on the universe damn you should.
You know. Stuff of bygone daze
Baby poo pants.
Nicely done. Thx forever. Happy summer
The Pixar doc upcoming led me here. Appreciate and apparently some say he didn’t get enough cred
Time will tell
Yeah. Been drinkin
Plus the now kegalz
Legalz oops strains
Thanks. Amazing comment, lol! Especially the hair part. Nothin' like 90's hair!
Classic old doco - Some really top level work - but pity the cgi has dated so poorly in some of Spaz other films. I bet he wishes he could redo Spawn!!
Amazing how well a lot of Spaz's CGI has held up tho, 20 years later!
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Hi, I did several tests rendering with Power Animator 9 and none of the renderings were like the link I posted here on UA-cam. Is this type of rendered image only obtainable in versions prior to 9? If anyone gets an image like the one in the video I would like to know let me know. Thanks.
Indeed. You used the unfortunate limited built-in render capabilities. Back then, and still at the top of its game… Pixar’s stand alone off the shelf RenderMan software was the main go to.
Handling RenderMan and its subfunctions since the industry rolled over into the digital realm is a, mainly coder based, skill in itself. Hence the term ‘render wranglers’ exists since the early days.
tldr: main pipe line back was(still actually is) to have dedicated modeling in one software package, animating in another and rendering rendering in a 3rd… not even taking in account skinning, rigging, compositing
again another needed in+ outputs.
Regards,
M
@@mmajjouti There is an old version of SoftImage|3D 3.7 Extreme for NT from 1997-1999 timeframe that actually does include RenderMan. I guess you could render out of that in a VM or a Windows 2000 machine if you want. 32-bit limited only, though, unlike SGI workstations that were slower and more expensive than NT boxes, but with the 64-bit addressing of IRIX I guess there are some highly complex scenes you wouldn't be able to recreate on NT due to the 4 GiB limitation of 32-bit addressing.
Pumpkin pie spice 😎
She wanted him to