ILM Chief Creative Officer John Knoll took the stage at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference to share a cutting edge VR demonstration created by ILMxLAB and Epic Games utilizing Unreal Engine running on the newly-announced iMac computer. The demo showcased how realtime VR tools such as Unreal Engine running on powerful hardware are being used to…
Industrial Light & Magic’s Vancouver studio is leading the charge for the company on Luc Besson’s epic science fiction film, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The film, based on the french graphic novel series “Valerian and Laureline.” This film marks the first to be spearheaded by the Vancouver studio and the crew could…
Cinefex Magazine issue 152 has made its debut and the latest and greatest incarnation of Kong graces the cover. The issue features the publication’s trademark in-depth coverage of 2 films for which ILM was the primary visual effects company Kong: Skull Island and The Great Wall. Cinefex continues to be the periodical of record for the visual effects…
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH ILM AND WHAT IS YOUR ROLE? I’ve been at ILM for a year and a half as a Media Systems Engineer and have supported movies from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What is a media systems engineer you ask? Good question; I’m still trying…
ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Craig Hammack was honored at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards for Extraordinary Achievement in Film. The ceremony took place on November 6th, 2016 at Exchange LA. Hammock was recognized for his contribution to the visual effects of Peter Berg’s ‘Deepwater Horizon’. Both Berg and lead actor Mark Wahlberg presented the award to…
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH ILM AND WHAT IS YOUR ROLE AT THE COMPANY? I’ve been at ILM for over 2 years. I am a Senior FX Technical Director, and have designed fx at ILM on “Warcraft: The Beginning”, “Ant-Man” and “Captain America: Civil War”. WHAT DO YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT YOUR JOB AND/OR…
Launched by the Ile de France Commission, the Paris Images Digital Summit is devoted to digital creation in its multiple manifestations, the latest trends and innovations in digital visual effects, CGI, motion-capture, 3-D and disruptive technologies in cinema, television, advertising, video games and transmedia. Muren is a visual effects specialist often celebrated for his contributions to some…
The issue covers three films that ILM contributed visual effects to: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Revenant and Spectre. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm Ltd. present the beginning of a new trilogy set in a distant galaxy, 30 years after the fall of the evil Emperor Palpatine, in which…
