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| - After his one year post-doc, he got married and proceeded to take off on a climbing expedition with his wife and several months later, he returned to the UK looking for work. The owner of System Simulation, George Mallen (Wyvill's boss and the person who ran the company), contacted him and said that the company had a big contract to make some sequences for a Hollywood movie. Wyvill though that "the money was good, seven pounds an hour," which, for Wyvill, was "a fortune for [him] at that time." He promptly set off for the Atlas lab, where Colin Emmett (an artist and one of Wyvill's colleagues) was having a very hard time making his software, FROLIC, behave well enough to finish the required sequences which were notably late. Wyvill settled down to help out, debugging Colin's code and addin
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| - After his one year post-doc, he got married and proceeded to take off on a climbing expedition with his wife and several months later, he returned to the UK looking for work. The owner of System Simulation, George Mallen (Wyvill's boss and the person who ran the company), contacted him and said that the company had a big contract to make some sequences for a Hollywood movie. Wyvill though that "the money was good, seven pounds an hour," which, for Wyvill, was "a fortune for [him] at that time." He promptly set off for the Atlas lab, where Colin Emmett (an artist and one of Wyvill's colleagues) was having a very hard time making his software, FROLIC, behave well enough to finish the required sequences which were notably late. Wyvill settled down to help out, debugging Colin's code and adding new features to the system. The reason that they used the Atlas lab was that they had an FR80, a very high resolution vector film plotter that would output 35mm film. Colin showed Wyvill the storyboard for Alien, which Wyvill thought "looked pretty far fetched" and that "there was a definite hominess about the waking astronauts and their cat which [he] didn't think Science Fiction fans would buy". Eventually, their part of the movie was just about done. The Nostromo receives a distress call and the computers wake everybody up and show on the screens a simulation of the orbit around the planet which sent out the message. Their part was making the simulated orbit. George Mallen asked Wyvill to go with him to meet the director, Ridley Scott, and show him the rushes, to see if all met with his approval. He kept them waiting three or four hours, which he didn't mind as he was being paid seven pounds an hour. However, George was "not so pleased."
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