Vision & Craft
Magicians at Work
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…
Dennis Muren Honored at Paris Images
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…
Cinefex Reveals Cover for Issue 145
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…
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…
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,…