by ggrusby | May 11, 2020 | London News, San Francisco News, Singapore News, Sydney News, Vancouver News
Starting May the 4th viewers have been treated to a closer look at the groundbreaking technology at work behind the scenes of The Mandalorian and more when Disney+ pulls back the curtain on the live-action Star Wars series with Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian. The...
by ggrusby | Feb 20, 2020 | San Francisco News
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), and Epic Games (maker of the Unreal Engine), together with production technology partners Fuse, Lux Machina, Profile Studios, NVIDIA, and ARRI unveiled a new filmmaking paradigm in collaboration with Jon Favreau’s Golem Creations to...
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...
