Free Live Event Celebrates Ed Kramer’s Podcast about the Pioneers of Computer Animation
Ed Kramer has spent the last few years interviewing some of the early computer animation “wizards” about their groundbreaking feature film work. The Wizards of Hollywood project then morphed from a book to a feature-length documentary. But when Covid put the documentary on pause, Ed connected with The Companion, a new app for fans of science fiction movies and shows.
That meeting culminates on Saturday, May 28 at 2:00p Pacific, with a live event to kick off Kramer’s series of new podcasts.
Join The Companion for this presentation with Ed about the CGI work he did at Industrial Light & Magic on such classic movies as the original Jumanji, The Mummy, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Harry Potter 2, Van Helsing, Galaxy Quest, and of course all three Star Wars prequels. Before ILM, Ed also contributed to Stargate, a perennial favorite of The Companion’s members.
Visit TheCompanion.app/ed-kramer for a free three-month trial and get access to a treasure trove of in-depth articles about your favorite sci-fi movies and franchises. Read articles and enjoy podcasts featuring showrunners, stars, and other insiders from classic shows like Stargate SG-1 and Babylon 5, everything from the classics to current fan favorites like the The Expanse, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series – which debuts on Disney+ the day before Ed’s live event!
If you are an artist who contributed CGI to classic films, Ed wants to talk with you! ed.kramer.cgi@gmail.com His podcast will feature and explore all the different skills needed to create a CGI film, from Modeling and Texturing to Rigging, Animating, Rotoscoping, Art Directing, Cloth and Hair Simulation, and every other skill needed to bring an animated movie sequence to life. Podcast guests will share the human side of the work through their recollections and stories about the crazy digital problems that had to be solved in the early years of CGI for feature films.