The things that got me into what I do now were Star Wars, the comic 2000 AD and Doctor Who.
Not to do Doctor Who any disservice, but when I watched it in the 1970s it had somewhat home-spun values. Big Hollywood films like Star Wars or Close Encounters of the Third Kind were slick and impenetrable, but the BBC would regularly have programmes where Mat Irvine or their other special effects people would show off their models, explain the lighting and camera angles, and demonstrate how they’d blow dust to make things look more realistic.
Visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin.