He saw computer graphics (CG) technology as the wave of the future and took a year off to master it.
With CG technology, images can be scanned into a computer for processing, for example, and many separate shots can be combined into a single image. CG technology has now reached the point, Muren says, where special effects can be used to do just about anything so that movies can tell stories better than ever before. The huge success of Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World, the stars of which were computer-generated dinosaurs, suggests that this may very well be true.
16. The special-effects revolution began in the mid-1980s with Star Wars
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17. ILM is the company responsible for many of the changes in special effects
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18. Dennis Muren started schooling at a very early age.
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19. By age 10, Muren was able to use computer graphics to make things seem to move.
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20. With the stop-motion process, many separate shots can be combined into a single image.