Word: cg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aesthetic evaluations. I would agree with his assertion that computer-generated scenes seem jarringly incongruous with the charm of the original Star Wars movies. However, Mr. Cavell's main source of disappointment--the new footage of the wampa creature on Hoth--is actually not a computer-generated (CG) creation. Rather, just as in the good old days of film-making, an actor got dressed up in a wampa outfit to shoot the new scenes...
Furthermore, it is not so much the use of CG editing itself which is disturbing, but rather how it is used. In the Star Wars: Special Edition, we "purists" feel more than "slight resentment" at certain CG effects because they change more than cosmetics. The altered Han Solo-Greedo scene, for example, revises Han's behavior; and by implication his character, and some of the new Mos Eisley scenes add humor where none existed before. By contrast, the minor changes made in Empire were minor: the Cloud City additions are merely cosmetic back-ground elaborations, and--contrary to the reviewer...
Taylor and his workers swung into action with steel tubing, wood, fabric, paint and wooden wings. By the spring of 1943 they had turned out 750 Waco CG- 4A gliders that would be towed behind C-47 transport planes, the silent landing craft for men and weapons in the farm fields behind the Normandy beaches. One G.I. had just stumbled ashore on D-day when he saw what he thought was a great cloud rising across the Channel and coming toward him. It was the first wave of U.S. gliders bringing in more troops and guns. As the news...
...Resnick 61 10 15 4 .246 0 0 0 1 1 10 1 Totals 942 186 289 82 .307 27 11 8 22 22 79 6 PITCHING Name App W L SV H IP SO BB ER ERA GS CG Jen Kimble 16 8 4 0 77 83 91 25 26 2.20 13 12 Chris Carr 16 9 5 1 89 80 52 8 29 2.55 14 9 Julie Frombolz 13 6 4 1 54 64 34 22 29 3.19 10 7 Totals...
PITCHING Name App W L SV PCT. SO IP BB ER ERA GS CG Sean Johnston 6 3 0 0 1.000 29. 33 45 9 10 3.07 4 1 Tom Hurely 5 2 3 0 .400 29.6710 12 17 5.16 5 1 Chip Poncy 3 0 0 0 .000 2.331 4 1 3.38 0 0 Jeff Mitchell 4 0 1 0 .000 10.6 7 7 3 5 4.22 0 0 Jamie Irving 7 2 1 0 .667 14.3312 5 7 4.40 2 0 Pete Rau 6 1 0 0 1.000 9.0 0 8 9 6 6.00 0 0 Tony Lancette...