Conversations With Cliff Plumer Part I: A Magical Move. hearing from lucasfilm. Cliff Plumer isn't a household name and tabloid photographers certainly don't recognize his face. Most of THG's readers have probably never heard of him. Yet, there are few people...

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Conversations with Cliff Plumer Part II: ILM's Real Yoda?. talking with cliff plumer part ii. Last week we presented the first part of Barry Gerber's interview with Cliff Plumer, the Chief Technology Officer of Lucasfilm and ILM. Our conversation this week...

• -Resolution Vs. Color Depth
• -Real Time Visualizations
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the repository for this information. Finally, there is his system engineering team, a small group of guys that Plumer says he "can throw any problem at anytime." As you might expect, the environment is pretty stressful but satisfying. Plumer said he is always...

• -Resolution Vs. Color Depth
• -Real Time Visualizations
• -You Can't Be Too Rich Or Have Too Many TeraBytes