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Jurassic World Honored with the Hollywood Visual Effects Award
Amidst the glitz and glamour at last evening’s Hollywood Film Awards, Visual Effects Supervisor Tim Alexander was presented with the Hollywood Visual Effects Award for Jurassic World. Alexander accepted on behalf the film’s lead visual effects house, ILM, and of all of the visual effects artisans who worked on the film – Some 400+ artists, technicians, scientists and…
ILMxLAB Teams with Open Bionics to create Disney-inspired bionic hands for amputee kids
Open Bionics collaborated with ILMxLAB and the ILM Art Department to create the next generation of bionic hands for young amputees. The ILM team provided design concepts for the Marvel, Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars inspired bionic hands. Numerous design concepts were created and from them three designs were selected to move into production including: From…
Hollywood Post Alliance Unveils Nominations
The Hollywood Post Alliance® (HPA) announced the nominees for the 2015 HPA Awards and we are thrilled to report that three ILM projects are up for consideration. In the Visual Effects for Feature Film category, ILM’s work on Jurassic World and Tomorrowland have each received nominations as has the company’s work on Marvel’s Agent Carter in the Visual…
ILMxLAB Partners With Facebook For 360 Video Launch
On September 23rd, Facebook announced that 360-degree video would be rolling out in user’s news feeds later that day. Disney and Lucasfilm debuted an exclusive ILMxLAB 360 experience from our upcoming movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, bringing fans inside the beloved Star Wars universe skimming over the surface of Jakku. “There’s also a whole world…
Magicians at Work
HOW LONG HAVE YOU WORKED FOR ILM? 19 years WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL AND WHAT DID YOU STUDY? Marquette University – I have a BA in Broadcasting and Electronic Communication with a minor in Criminology WHEN WAS THE MOMENT YOU DECIDED TO BE IN FILM? From the broad perspective, I knew as a…
SIGGRAPH Special Event: ILM at 40
For 40 years, Industrial Light & Magic has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most memorable images in the history of modern cinema. From advances in the photo-chemical process, optical compositing, motion control, and models and miniatures, to the company’s pioneering efforts in computer graphics, digital compositing, film scanning and recording,…
Breathing Life into the Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park
While the film may have been 65 million years in the making, the visual effects crew would have substantially less time to create what would later be recognized as a seminal moment in the annals of cinema history. Jurassic Park represented a massive leap forward in the use of computers to create imagery for the screen. For…
ILM Celebrates its 40th Anniversary at Comic-Con
ILM and Science Channel joined together to celebrate ILM’s 40th Anniversary at Comic-Con International in San Diego this year. Industrial Light & Magic Visual Effects Supervisor, Jeff White, legendary ILM model maker, Lorne Peterson, and model maker and digital artist, John Goodson, spoke on a sold-out panel delving into the company’s 40-year history and how…