ILM's Jeff White breaks down that incredible oner from 'The Avengers'

A look back at the ILM Vancouver creative director’s career.

Today it’s our next episode in the special ILM podcast series, as part of the release of my book, Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation.

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We’re talking here with Jeff White, creative director at ILM Vancouver. Jeff has some fun stories to share about how he started out at ILM.

Jeff White on the set of Kong: Skull Island.

Then we go deep into some of his landmark projects at the studio, including the transformations on Transformers, his role in developing the tool BlockParty, that New York oner in The Avengers, the creature work in Kong: Skull Island, and the environments of Aquaman.

This podcast is sponsored by RE:Vision Effects.

Here’s a quick quiz: Name the company that made VFX for these movies?

E.T., Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Abyss, Terminator 2,, Forest Gump, The Mask, Twister, Mission Impossible, Spawn, Speed II, Saving Private Ryan, The Perfect Storm, AI, Minority Report, Cowboys and Aliens, Lucy, Kong: Skull Island, The Revenant, The Batman, Alien: Romulus and Running Man?

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Listen in, above. Below, check out ILM’s breakdown for the oner from The Avengers and its breakdown for Kong: Skull Island.

You can also read and watch Jeff White and Jason Smith’s BlockParty presentation from SIGGRAPH 2006 for free, here.