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 Ella Greig | Jun 10, 2025 | San Francisco News
Guided by visual effects supervisor John Knoll, ILM embraced continually evolving methodologies to craft breathtaking visual effects for the iconic space battles in First Contact and Rogue One. By Jay Stobie Visual effects supervisor John Knoll (right) confers with...
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 Ella Greig | May 15, 2025 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized
The second, and final, part of an extensive look behind the scenes of the visual effects production for Lucasfilm’s pirate-themed Star Wars adventure series. By Clayton Sandell If you missed part one of our deep dive into Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, read it here on...
