by ggrusby | May 4, 2019 | San Francisco News, Vision & Craft
Today, ILM Senior Compositor, Charmaine Chan explains her visual inspiration for the Kylo and Luke confrontation after the Battle of Crait in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. These days, majority of blockbuster films are shot in front of a giant green/blue screen....
by ggrusby | May 3, 2019 | Research & Development, San Francisco News, Vision & Craft
OpenEXR, a widely-adopted HDR image file format, and OpenCue, a recently launched render manager, join the growing roster of Academy Software Foundation projects. We’re thrilled to announce that the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a neutral forum for open...
by ggrusby | Apr 10, 2019 | London News, San Francisco News, Sydney News, Vision & Craft
Leveraging Industrial Light & Magic’s decades-long experience in production and effects, we have created an integrated virtual production platform we call, StageCraft – an end-to-end virtual production solution. StageCraft offers...
by ggrusby | Mar 11, 2019 | San Francisco News, Vision & Craft
Today our guest writer is Todd Vaziri, Lead Artist at ILM who chronicles how the Blockade Runner engine shot from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story went from idea to reality: I was thrilled to get to work on this shot with my friend and frequent collaborator, ILM lighter...
by ggrusby | Feb 14, 2019 | San Francisco News, Vision & Craft
ILM’s Chief Creative Officer, John Knoll was among those honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at this year’s Sci Tech Awards. Watch David Oyelowo present Scientific and Engineering Awards to Thomas Knoll and John Knoll for the...
