Official Trailer for ‘Jurassic Punk’ Doc About CGI Artist Steve Williams
by Alex Billington
November 23, 2022
Supply: YouTube
“If you wish to keep within the trade, you gotta play the sport.” Gravitas Ventures has launched an official trailer for a documentary titled Jurassic Punk, made by filmmaker Scott Leberecht. This primary premiered on the 2022 SXSW Movie Pageant earlier this yr, and in addition stopped by the Sitges Movie Pageant in Spain. “You may’t revolutionize the Historical past of Cinema with out being an anarchist.” Steve “Spaz” Williams is a pioneer in pc animation. His digital dinosaurs of Jurassic Park remodeled Hollywood eternally, however his personal urge for food for anarchy and disrespect for authority might have price him the popularity he deserved. That is the true story of the person who helped revolutionize the VFX trade, convincing Steven Spielberg to modify to utilizing CGI dinosaurs for Jurassic Park in 1993 (and in addition T2 and The Abyss). He was an enormous a part of ILM, however there’s extra to his story. This needs to be taking part in as a double function with Disney’s wonderful Mild & Magic doc collection about ILM (Industrial Mild & Magic) on Disney+ proper now (Spaz is in it lots), nevertheless it’s an indie movie barely getting a launch this yr. I am going to positively be watching! I need to study all about him. Test it out.
This is the official trailer (+ poster) for Scott Leberecht’s doc Jurassic Punk, direct from YouTube:
Steve Williams is taken into account a pioneer in pc animation. This intimate movie examines his life story and occasions surrounding the historic second when digital dinosaurs walked onto the silver display in Jurassic Park. Steve and a refrain of knowledgeable witnesses recount a dramatic story of rise up and revolution at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Mild & Magic within the early Nineties– a time when creating practical creatures with a pc was thought of not possible. A long time later, Steve struggles to reckon along with his chaotic previous. Jurassic Punk is directed by VFX artist / filmmaker Scott Leberecht, director of the movie Midnight Son beforehand, plus a number of different brief movies; he additionally works as a visible results artwork director (together with for ILM). It is also produced by Scott Leberecht, with Gloria Coronado-Myatt and Ayanna Hart as the chief producers. This initially premiered on the 2022 SXSW Movie Pageant earlier this yr. Gravitas Ventures debuts Jurassic Punk in choose US theaters + on VOD beginning December sixteenth, 2022. For more information, go to the official web site.
