Rob Bredow

The computer would record it.

That animation could be sent across the bay from Phil Tippett's shop to the artist at ILM, who could put the skin on and light it and render it, even touch up the animation digitally to create the final shots in the film.

literally a combination of the oldest animation technique we know, stop motion, and the brand-new computer graphics techniques back in 1993.

This has been true recently with AI technology as well.

Harrison Ford from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, performing on set in that iconic role he created, but he's looking a little younger for the opening of this film.

Our artists hand-tuned generative AI models on past performances of Indiana Jones, of course with Harrison Ford's permission.

In addition to that, our artists also created a full CG computer graphics version of his performance.

So why did we do it two different ways?

Well, it turns out the AI system is really, really good at getting that likeness, pulling all the details out of Harrison's performance that he could do unencumbered on set, get that into a likeness and the correct age that we were looking for for this character.

It wasn't as good at the details and the controls.

That's when our CG model came to the rescue, and our artists created a blend of the two to create the opening 20 minutes of this movie, and I'd say some of the best work of this kind ever done.

And it's not bad if Harrison Ford says, it's pretty good, it feels like me.

So that's blending the old and new, right?

Leaning on the experienced artist to drive even the brand-new techniques.

That takes us to how technology can actually work hand in hand with creative.

I believe that we're designed to be creative beings.

It's one of the most important things about us.

That's one of the reasons we appreciate and we just love it when we see technology and creativity working together.

We see this on the motion control on the original Star Wars or on Jurassic Park with the CG dinosaurs for the first time.

I think we just love it when we see creativity in action like this, tech and creative working together.