A new documentary about Terminator 2: Judgment Day’s computer graphics animation supervisor Steve “Spaz” Williams will be shown at SXSW this month. Canadian born Williams was a pioneering animator and supervisor working at Industrial Light & Magic on movies such as Jurassic Park, The Abyss, The Mask and Jumanji.
Deadline reports:
“A new teaser trailer has dropped for Spaz, the Scott Leberecht-directed film that is world premiering in the Documentary Feature Competition at this month’s SXSW. The doc tells the life story of Steve “Spaz” Williams, who is considered a pioneer in computer animation after his groundbreaking work in the 1990s on Jurassic Park and for Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light + Magic.”
Deadline
Quickly rising to the top his field within the industry, Steve Williams’ Hollywood bubble unceremoniously burst, – this documentary, directed by fellow ILM alumni Scott Leberecht (visual effects art director with ILM for Eraser, Spawn and Sleepy Hollow) is set to address the big question of: “what happened?”.
The documentary recounts Steve Williams’ life story, leading up to the revolutionary Academy Award winning work in computer graphics that took place at ILM; Terminator 2: Judgment Day being one of those award winning revolutionary projects.
The T-1000 himself, Mr. Robert Patrick appears in the documentary to talk about how integral Williams was to bringing the mimetic polyalloy supervillain to life for visionary director James Cameron in the 1991 movie.
Spaz debuts on March 14 at the Alamo Lamar and will be available online March 15th, 2022.
