ABSTRACT
Robert Blalack (born in 1948 in Canal Zone, Panama) has one Academy Award to his credit having done the optical composites for the original George Lucas Star Wars (1977), using (before the advent of the digital age) an optical printer that was designed by another award winner, Larry Butler. Virtual reality (VR) has impacted the movie business as a tool for pre-production design and production, used to visually articulate a movie's environment, actor performances, camera lighting and framing. VR iterations can help refine a filmmaker's interior vision, which lives in its own non-reality, and bring those usually hazy visions into the specific and concrete components that make up a movie. VR can be a creative and production cost clarifying and savings tool, when employed for Hollywood visual extravaganzas, so it's going to get more development and use in movie production.
