Meet LightWave Legend Ron Thornton
Articolo su Ron Thornton, il suo ruolo negli anni 90 nel campo dei visual effects, produzione VFX di quegli anni su desktop Commodore Amiga con LightWave 3D, ...
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Meet LightWave Legend Ron Thornton
Ron Thornton broke new ground for visual effects in the 90s with LightWave and his innovation with the software continues today
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Then, another game changer occurred that would have a big impact on Thornton and his work: NewTek introduced the Video Toaster as a companion to the Amiga, and included was LightWave, a 3D modeling, rendering, and animation package. Thornton and his longtime friend and neighbor, Paul Beigle-Bryant, both bought one. “It was full 24-bit. Whereas Sculpt 4D could only render in something like 4,096 colors, LightWave was rendering in millions of colors. So, you could do much more realistic renders. I challenged myself to see if I could build a spaceship in the computer like I was building in miniature.” Using LightWave and Sculpt 4D, he did his first test. [
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The 1990s were sort of the Wild West period in visual effects. In the early part of the decade, computer graphics were novel, making headlines and turning heads for their groundbreaking use in feature film sequences, such as the liquid-metal shape-shifting T-1000 in
Terminator 2 and the VR sequence in
The Lawnmower Man. Many had grand visions but lacked the blueprints and tools to help them in their quest using this new medium. To succeed required these pioneers to blaze new paths, to turn the industry on its head, to start a revolution.
Ron Thornton is one of those visionaries who embraced CGI at its infancy in the entertainment industry and devised workflows where none existed to introduce computer graphics to the broadcast world, starting with the sci-fi series
Babylon 5. [
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