Meet the hosts from Industrial Light & Magic (ILM): Rob Bredow, Chief Creative Officer, and Todd Vaziri, Senior Compositor who talk about the creative process of filmmaking and the art of visual storytelling. In our premiere episode Rob and Todd share thoughts on beautiful final shots from films they’ve personally worked on, along with a...
By Lucas Seastrom Back in 2002, Industrial Light & Magic’s Jay Cooper was a compositing sequence supervisor on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). For a time, director Peter Weir joined the ILM crew at their offices on Kerner Boulevard in San Rafael, California. “We had a shot when the mast...
Wednesday evening, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s global professional honorary society, held the 22nd Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry, and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games, and special venues. ILM’s work on The Creator earned six nominations and won four awards including the coveted...
Ever since George Lucas and John Dykstra sat down in 1975 to discuss the former’s vision of capturing dynamic aerial dogfights between miniature spaceships in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has made an art of solving creative problems in close partnership with filmmakers. As Lucas’ vision challenged ILM’s capabilities...
Earlier today The Academy announced their Oscar nominations for the 96th Academy Awards and we are excited to share that ILM teams contributed to 4 of the 5 films recognized. The films include The Creator, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, Napoleon, and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3. Jay Cooper, Visual Effects Supervisor for...
On February 23, 2024 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will recognize 16 technologies for their impact on filmmaking. Two technologies that ILM played a key role in helping to develop will be among those recognized. SciTech Awards committee chair Barbara Ford Grant said “this year, we honor 16 technologies for their exceptional...
Earlier today BAFTA announced the nominations for the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards, celebrating the very best in film over the past year. ILM contributed to four of the five films recognized with a nomination in the Special Visual Effects category. Jay Cooper, Charmaine Chan, Ian Comley, and Jonathan Bullock were each nominated for Gareth...
Gareth Edwards’ The Creator leads the feature film field with seven nominations six of which are for ILM work. In all, ILM visual effects artistry was recognized with 19 nominations including those for The Creator. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves joining it in the top category,...
ASIFA-Hollywood announced nominations today for its 51st Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The ILM team which included Rick O’Connor, Mike Beaulieu, Stewart Alves, Kevin Reuter, and Wai Kit Wan received a nomination for Best Character Animation – Live Action for its work on Lucasfilm’s hit Disney+ series, Ahsoka. The...
The end is only the beginning. KISS have been immortalized and reborn as avatars to rock forever. Created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) in collaboration with the band and Pophouse Entertainment Group, the avatars portray each of the four band members in an idealized, and at times superhuman form. Months before the supergroup’s final...
We are proud to announce Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind will be honored with a prestigious Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement – Attraction in 2024 by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA). Internationally recognized, the Thea Awards acknowledge exceptional achievements in the themed entertainment industry and celebrate the creative teams who bring immersive experiences to life. Under...
The nominations for the 2023 Emmy Awards have been revealed, and three ILM projects were recognized with nominations. Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian, Andor, and Amazon Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power were each nominated in the Special Visual Effects category.
Everyone at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), has been honored to call Jean Bolte a colleague, and after 35 years she’s now leaving to pursue her own work as an artist. Jean first arrived here in 1987 when she joined the hallowed Model Shop at ILM’s former Kerner facility in San Rafael, California. With prior experience working...
The Visual Effects Society announced its nominees for the 21st Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in features, animation, television, commercials, and video games and the VFX Supervisors, VFX Producers and hands-on Artists who bring this work to life. ILM received 18 nominations across 11 projects...
Today, teams across Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Lucasfilm mourn the loss of our former colleague Richard Miller, who recently passed away at the age of 80. Before he was hired at ILM in 1981, Miller worked as a freelance sculptor and jeweler, developing a unique style of sculpting characters that fused modern flair...
ILM’s creative teams were honored with an Emmy® award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie for The Book of Boba Fett, alongside nominations for their work on The Witcher.
The Television Academy today announced the recipients of the 74th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Awards honoring an individual, company, or organization for developments in broadcast technology. Industrial Light & Magic is proud to be the recipient of an Emmy Award for its StageCraft virtual production tool suite. StageCraft has been used on such series as The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, How I met your Father, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and The Old Man.
