Great piece in
The Daily about Tippett Studio’s Script-to-Screen involvement in the Lumberyard Sequence for Breaking Dawn: Part 1.
"Visual effects people are either 'gurus' or 'magicians' or 'pioneers.' But Willis O'Brien was the pioneer. He was the guy who took technologies from the 1800s, and figured out how to turn them into King Kong. The rest of us are craftsmen and practitioners."
