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How Larry Cuba animated the computer graphics for Star Wars

By W. R. Miller on March 8, 2015

How were the Death Star graphics animated? CG expert Larry Cuba gives us the answer in this video presentation, The Star Wars Computer Animation, uploaded by Star Wars 1977-1996. Mr. Cuba manifested his wizardry at the Circle Graphics Habitat–now the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)–at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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