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Visual effects and Star Wars have been hand in glove since George Lucas founded Industrial Light & Magic a long time ago to create galaxies far, far away Each of the Star Wars episodes, starting with the first in 1977, has pushed the state of the art of visual effects and filmmaking, and Episode II is no exception: All but 161 shots in the film are visual effects shots. Indeed it would be difficult to find another film in which visual effects and, in particular. computer graphics, were woven into the fabric of a film with as much persistence as in Episode II--unless it were Episode I.

Episode I, released in 1999, demonstrated ways in which visual effects can ...

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