{"id":1529,"date":"2008-03-27T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T13:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/27\/interview-with-the-inventor-of-r2-d2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T13:57:44","slug":"interview-with-the-inventor-of-r2-d2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/03\/27\/interview-with-the-inventor-of-r2-d2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with the inventor of R2-D2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/blogs\/technology_news\/4255868.html?series=6\" title=\"Grant McCune\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/grant-mccune.jpg\" title=\"Grant McCune\" alt=\"Grant McCune\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/\">Popular Mechanics<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/blogs\/technology_news\/4255868.html?series=6\">a short interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0567263\/\"><strong>Grant McCune<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; the man who designed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R2-D2\">R2-D2<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Millenium_Falcon\">Millenium Falcon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><strong>What\u2019s the secret to making a good model?<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\">For motion picture miniatures and production miniatures, I\u2019ve always told people to get a good background in photography first. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\">The most important thing is what you see with your eye. Movies are a lot different from reality. This is because you\u2019ve isolated the viewer\u2019s eye to a certain spot\u2014you can\u2019t look anywhere else. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\">If you\u2019re a photographer, you get the idea of what you need to do by analyzing what it is that needs to be set and where it is and how much detail it should have. All the best people who ever worked for me were first good with the eye.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/blogs\/technology_news\/4255868.html?series=6\">full interview at the website of Popular Mechanics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/movies\/Rare_Interview_With_Inventor_of_R2_D2_Millennium_Falcon\">Digg<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0567263\/\">Grant McCune<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmdfx.com\/\">The website for Grant McCune Design<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Mechanics have a short interview with Grant McCune &#8211; the man who designed R2-D2 and the Millenium Falcon. Here is an excerpt: What\u2019s the secret to making a good model? For motion picture miniatures and production miniatures, I\u2019ve always told people to get a good background in photography first. The most important thing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}