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Lucas Seastrom

50 Years | 500+ Film and TV credits | 135+ Awards

SINCE 1975

“That Was Very Gross”: ILM’s Vincent Papaix on the Often Bloody and Weird Visual Effects of ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

“That Was Very Gross”: ILM’s Vincent Papaix on the Often Bloody and Weird Visual Effects of ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

by Lucas Seastrom | Dec 20, 2024 | San Francisco News

The visual effects supervisor talks Cassandra Nova, Gambit, and more. By Dan Brooks (Credit: Disney) In a surprise twist midway through Deadpool & Wolverine, our titular protagonists are marooned in the Void: a Mad Max-like wasteland of desert and forgotten...
Tim Burton’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’: Giving life to an undying legend

Tim Burton’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’: Giving life to an undying legend

by Lucas Seastrom | Nov 15, 2024 | San Francisco News, Vision & Craft

Heads still roll 25 years later in the Tim Burton classic Sleepy Hollow (1999). Revisit all of the eerie magic behind Industrial Light & Magic’s work that brought Washington Irving’s folktale to life and reintroduced audiences to one of cinema’s greatest on-screen...
ILM Celebrates the Career of Compositing Supervisor Jon Alexander

ILM Celebrates the Career of Compositing Supervisor Jon Alexander

by Lucas Seastrom | Nov 8, 2024 | San Francisco News, Vision & Craft

After 38 years, the veteran effects artist is retiring. By Lucas O. Seastrom First opening in 1987, the original Star Tours attraction at Disneyland included what was the most complex optical composite created at Industrial Light & Magic up to that time. A “view”...
‘Ghostbusters 2’: Pushing the Limits with Slimer

‘Ghostbusters 2’: Pushing the Limits with Slimer

by Lucas Seastrom | Oct 31, 2024 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized, Vision & Craft

Exploring the technical innovations and behind-the-scenes stories that brought Slimer to life in Ghostbusters 2, reaching new heights in animatronics and practical effects at Industrial Light & Magic. By Jamie Benning The original Slimer head on display at...
Industrial Light & Magic’s Everlasting ‘Star Trek III’ Starship Designs

Industrial Light & Magic’s Everlasting ‘Star Trek III’ Starship Designs

by Lucas Seastrom | Sep 12, 2024 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized, Vision & Craft

Take a deep dive into the history and lore behind the starship designs created by ILM and introduced 40 years ago in The Search for Spock. By Jay Stobie Written and produced by Harve Bennett, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) afforded actor Leonard Nimoy his...
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