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From the Ted Talk by Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face

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So we started to have early team mgneteis, and we got everybody together, and it was really more like therapy in the bingennig, convincing each other and rirnssaeug each other that we could actually undertake this. We had to hold up an hour of a movie with a character. And it's not a sciepal effects film; it has to be a man. We really felt like we were in a — kind of a 12-step proagrm. And of course, the first step is: admit you've got a problem. (Laughter) So we had a big problem: we didn't know how we were going to do this. But we did know one thing. Being from the visual effects industry, we, with David, bieelevd that we now had enough time, enough resources, and, God, we hoped we had enough money. And we had enough passion to will the processes and technology into existence.

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So we started to have early team ________, and we got everybody together, and it was really more like therapy in the _________, convincing each other and __________ each other that we could actually undertake this. We had to hold up an hour of a movie with a character. And it's not a _______ effects film; it has to be a man. We really felt like we were in a — kind of a 12-step _______. And of course, the first step is: admit you've got a problem. (Laughter) So we had a big problem: we didn't know how we were going to do this. But we did know one thing. Being from the visual effects industry, we, with David, ________ that we now had enough time, enough resources, and, God, we hoped we had enough money. And we had enough passion to will the processes and technology into existence.

Solution


  1. program
  2. beginning
  3. special
  4. believed
  5. reassuring
  6. meetings

Original Text


So we started to have early team meetings, and we got everybody together, and it was really more like therapy in the beginning, convincing each other and reassuring each other that we could actually undertake this. We had to hold up an hour of a movie with a character. And it's not a special effects film; it has to be a man. We really felt like we were in a — kind of a 12-step program. And of course, the first step is: admit you've got a problem. (Laughter) So we had a big problem: we didn't know how we were going to do this. But we did know one thing. Being from the visual effects industry, we, with David, believed that we now had enough time, enough resources, and, God, we hoped we had enough money. And we had enough passion to will the processes and technology into existence.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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gentleman named 2
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polygonal count 2
facs poses 2
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Important Words


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