by Lucas Seastrom | Jul 3, 2025 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized
New series exploring ILM’s 50-year legacy kicks off with new interviews featuring original Star Wars animator Chris Cassidy and current ILM animation supervisors Rob Coleman and Hal Hickel. By Jamie Benning From left: animator Peter Kuran, production coordinator...
by Lucas Seastrom | Jun 27, 2025 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized
The visual effects supervisor from ILM’s Vancouver studio shares insights about helping create new characters and bringing the streets of New York City to life. By Mark Newbold (Credit: ILM & Marvel). Proudly displaying the most famous typographical symbol...
by Lucas Seastrom | Jun 6, 2025 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized
ILM teams with Ben Stiller and Apple TV+ to bring thousands of seamless visual effects shots to the hit drama’s second season. By Clayton Sandell There are mysterious and important secrets to be uncovered in the second season of the wildly popular Apple TV+ series...
by Lucas Seastrom | May 28, 2025 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized
On this day in 1975, Industrial Light & Magic was officially signed into existence by George Lucas. By Lucas O. Seastrom ILM’s original crew for Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) poses in the front lot of their original studio (Credit: ILM & Lucasfilm). 50...
by Lucas Seastrom | May 7, 2025 | San Francisco News
Muren celebrates ILM’s 50th anniversary at the place where it all began. By Clayton Sandell Dennis Muren was there at the beginning. As one of the first employees of George Lucas’s fledgling visual effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, Muren spent many long...
