ILM's Dennis Muren claims ‘special effects aren't special any more’

Dennis Muren is the man most people in the visual effects industry will name when asked who has been most influential in the industry. From Star Wars to Indiana Jones to Jurassic Park, Muren has been there. Now as Creative Director at ILM he talks to Hollywood.com and he reveals that "In some ways, I think special effects aren't special anymore."

"If you're going to make a motion picture," he explains, "don't just throw computer graphics in to make everything bigger or more. Don't have an army of 20,000 centaurs or whatever it is, if the story is better with seven centaurs. They've lost sight, making things bigger and bigger. Less personal."

"In some ways, I think special effects aren't special anymore. We really were at that stage when we did Willow." Muren says that around 1988 and 1989, the entire effects industry was still "doing it the old fashioned way," working through effects-enhanced set pieces with the known tools. "If you look back at a whole series of films in the '80s, there wasn't a big, visual "wow, look at that!" like 2001 had been or Star Wars had been."

Read the full article over at Hollywood.com

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