Hynek previously was nominated for effects for " Predator " and won a special technical achievement Academy Award for an optical printer he designed.
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For this reason, shots intended to be manipulated via optical printer were often shot on larger film formats than the rest of the project.
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He started his career in research and development at IBM Deutschland in B�blingen working on the instrument development of optical printers and large-scale displays.
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Optical printers have various industrial uses, but one distinct advantage for film artists is that they allow them to manipulate live-action images the way animators do.
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By the mid-nineties, computer graphics had evolved to rival and surpass what was possible with optical printers, and many now consider optical printing all but obsolete.
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In the normal process of duplicating a film in an optical printer, collimated light passes through the film base on its way to illuminate the emulsion.
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During post-production Welles and special effects artist Linwood G . Dunn experimented with an optical printer to improve certain scenes that Welles found unsatisfactory from the footage.
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Barry Letts planned six preceding story, who brought Letts up to date with the contemporary technology of filming normally then using an optical printer to combine the material.
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Later, during dinner, Chuck Harrison, who won a technical Academy Award for an optical printer, commented : " What Clifford has come up with is a kind of hyperacuity.
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"It's a very strange environment we're in right now because the optical printer can do a lot of our bread-and-butter work, while the computer can handle really complex jobs,"
