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Jonathan Erland says the VFX crew working on "Star Wars" didn't just create the things you saw on screen. They had to build from scratch the equipment that made those visual effects.

The visual effects pioneer responsible for the original ‘Star Wars’ thinks movies today may rely too much on effects

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Jonathan Erland and the visual effects crew that worked on the original “Star Wars” had to build everything from scratch. And afterward, they threw a lot of it in a dumpster, including the models for the original Death Star.

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