New ILM Book Coming November 2011
Pamela Glintenkamp former director of the Lucasfilm Archival History Project is the author of the third ILM book. It will cover the last 16 years, where the last book left off (circa 1995). It will be released Novermber 1, 2011 by Abrams Books.
Fon Davis Tackles Robotic Warfare with MORAV
Former ILM model maker Fon Davis is leading a multimedia project titled MORAV: The History of Robotic Warfare. A graphic novel has already been released and live action webisodes will appear in the future. If you're interested in robotics or miniatures, check out his sites:
ILM at SIGGRAPH 2011
- Brice Criswell at the Course: Destruction and Dynamics for Film and Game Production
- Tommy Burnette at the Panel: The Need for Standardization Within Global Visual Effects Productions Through Open Source and Open Standards
- Steve Sullivan at the Panel: Successful Creative Collaboration Across Time and Space
- Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda and Greg Grusby at the Talk: "Rango": A Case of Lighting and Compositing a CG-Animated Feature in an FX-Oriented Facility
- Stephen Bowline and Zoran Kacic-Alesic at the Talk: Dynamic, Penetration-Free Feathers in "Rango"
- Rony Goldenthal at the Talk: Accurate Contact Resolution for Interpolated Hairs
- Production Session: Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Getting Dirty: Bringing the Digital Feature "Rango" to Life
- The Industrial Light & Magic panel breaks down the visual effects challenges presented on this year’s slate of films at the Production Session: New Solutions for New Challenges
Star Tours: The Adventures Continue Opens
Star Tours: The Adventures Continue opened May 20, 2011 at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World.
- VFX Supervisor: Bill George
Promotional videos:
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in Theatres
The fourth installment of the saga, directed by Rob Marshall with Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane and Kevin McNally.
- Overall VFX Supervisor: Charlie Gibson
- ILM Supervisor: Ben Snow
- ILM Animation Supervisor: Tim Harrington
- ILM Digital Matte Paintings Supervisor: Brett Northcutt
New ILM Projects: The Avengers and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
- Director: Brad Bird
- ILM VFX Supervisor: John Knoll
- Release Date: December 16, 2011
The Avengers
- Director: Joss Whedon
- Release Date: May 4, 2012
New Trailers for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stanger Tides, Super 8, Cowboys & Aliens and Transformers 3
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Brian Pohl, former pre-vis artist at ILM and now supervisor at POV, will teach a second course in Previsualisation & Cinematography as part of the CGWorkshops.
ILM will be interviewing candidates for FX and Lighting TDs and Shake and Inferno compositors in Los Angeles this Wednesday December 6, 2006.
Vicon, makers of optical motion capture systems, recently announced that ILM has acquired 40 Vicon MX40 Cameras.
The official Star Wars site has an article detailing the creation of the planet Felucia from Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith. On the other hand issue 167 of the Star Wars newsletter profiles Michael Smith, who runs the Javva the Hutt cafe, while issue 168 mentions how the ILM Model Shop built the Princess Leia bikini costume from Return of the Jedi.
ComingSoon.net is reporting that former ILM member Joe Letteri will be supervising the VFX, provided by Weta Digital, for James Cameron's Avatar.
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