These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
ADAM SAVAGEBack when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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