R.I.P.
Tony Dyson passed away at his home in Malta
Tony Dyson, the creator of R2-D2 and Emmy-nominated film SFx supervisor who worked on films such as Superman 2 and Moonraker, Dragon Slayer, Saturn 3 and The Empire Strikes Back, has passed away.
Professor, author, educator, and more, Tony Dyson was also keenly interested in Second Life.
He first became involved with the platform while investigating distance learning mediums, and recognised the Second Life’s potential as a means of creating real-time animation, something he had tried to do outside of the platform without much success.
As a result of getting involved in SL, he was introduced to machinima producer and publisher Chantal Harvey, (via Phalen Fairchild), and they found they had much in common. Chantal invited Tony to head the jury in the 2012 48 Hour Film Project for machinima, and thus a working collaboration between the two of them…
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