TIL that Dennis Muren, the special effects artist who worked on Star Wars and Close Encounters, took a year-long sabbatical to read a 1,200-page textbook on computer graphics. Shortly thereafter, he led the VFX teams that worked on Terminator 2, then Jurassic Park.

TIL that Dennis Muren, the special effects artist who worked on Star Wars and Close Encounters, took a year-long sabbatical to read a 1,200-page textbook on computer graphics. Shortly thereafter, he led the VFX teams that worked on Terminator 2, then Jurassic Park.

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