Did you watch the new Battlestar Galactica series and what did you think of it?
I caught a little bit of it and I thought it was pretty interesting. They updated it nicely and there’s more storyline going on there. You can’t compare it with the original series. It was a different day and age. How does CGI changed things from doing old bluescreens? Digital is much better now, simply because computers are faster. There are things you can get away with more when you’re doing old bluescreen though. But since digital is now so far advanced, I don’t think I would want to go back to bluescreen. Film as a medium is going away, which is a shame, since there was a certain beauty to that. Digital is just another medium, it can be abused, but it can also be really beautiful. Some supervisors would say: “Ah we can just paint that out.” On Inspector Gadget we had a grip sitting in the shot and I had to paint the grip out! I heard on Contact there was a grip truck in the picture and Ken Ralston apparently said “You can’t do that”, but it wasn’t in the budget to paint that truck
