Steve Williams' radical CGI developments are crucial reasons why the films still resonate today.
for 1989’s The Abyss to create that first-of-its-kind photorealistic water tentacle creature that replicates actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio’s face – a moment everyone remembers.
One of the reasons Williams has likely failed to become a household name was his attitude – stubborn, wild, resistant to leadership and a little arrogant. He rubbed plenty of important people up the wrong way and ended up fired from ILM . The CGI expert managed to convince Steven Spielberg to use CGI rather than stop-motion to animate the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park – but he never met him
‘I secretly built the bones and I ambushed [producers] Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall when they were coming in, and it was the first and only time I ever met her.’ ‘Like in Jaws, only bits of the creature [were shown] because as a puppet or an armature, it starts to expose itself pretty fast when it’s not working,’ he explained.
The other reason? As Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs were created digitally but the film was distributed on 35mm, ‘we had to add literally film grain to the characters before composite in order to match it’.
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