{"id":15111,"date":"2021-07-14T08:27:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15111"},"modified":"2021-07-14T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:28:41","slug":"vfx-an-oral-history-of-terminator-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/14\/vfx-an-oral-history-of-terminator-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VFX: An oral history of Terminator 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my favorite flexes while working on Google Photos was to say, &#8220;Hey, you remember the liquid-metal guy in Terminator 2? You know who wrote that? This guy,&#8221; while pointing to my ex-Adobe teammate John Schlag. I&#8217;d continue to go down the list\u2014e.g. &#8220;You know who won an Oscar for rigging at DreamWorks? This guy [points at Alex Powell].&#8221; I did this largely to illustrate how insane it was to have such a murderer&#8217;s row of talent working on whatever small-bore project Photos had in mind. (Sorry, it was a very creatively disappointing time.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, John S., along with Michael Natkin (who went on to spend a decade+ making After Effects rock), contributed to this great <a href=\"https:\/\/beforesandafters.com\/2019\/10\/21\/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history\/\">oral history of the making of Terminator 2<\/a>. It&#8217;s loaded with insights &amp; behind-the-scenes media I&#8217;d never seen before. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/T2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/T2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/T2.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/T2-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/T2-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"T2 - Robert Patrick\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0xp74uIZO4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite flexes while working on Google Photos was to say, &#8220;Hey, you remember the liquid-metal guy in Terminator 2? You know who wrote that? This guy,&#8221; while pointing to my ex-Adobe teammate John Schlag. I&#8217;d continue to go down the list\u2014e.g. &#8220;You know who won an Oscar for rigging at DreamWorks? This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15121,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111\/revisions\/15121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}