How ‘Andor’s’ real London locations were the basis of Coruscant finals
Turning the Barbican into a Star Wars building.
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Optical Dogs, dailies and the origins of ‘CBB’: 40 years of ‘Jedi’
We look back at the four decade anniversary of 'Return of the Jedi' with Industrial Light & Magic’s production supervisor on the film, Patricia Rose Duignan.
It certainly *looked* like Michelle Williams was playing the piano in ‘The Fabelmans’…
…but actually that was the result of some very neat visual effects work from Industrial Light & Magic.
Why Steven Spielberg decided to use LED walls for the first time on ‘The Fabelmans’
How the director relied on ILM’s StageCraft virtual production set-up for the New Jersey tornado sequence.
Here’s why the fluid sims on ‘The Perfect Storm’ were so hard to do
VFX Notes has a special guest -- Habib Zargarpour - who discusses his role at ILM on the oceans for 'The Perfect Storm'.
The THEN & NOW sessions are on again at FMX 2023!
Stop-motion puppet fabrication, Dragonheart's animation and a look back at Gravity.
Celebrate the release of the new 4K UHD ‘Dragonslayer’ SteelBook release with this Phil Tippett gallery
Re-visiting the go-motion work by Phil Tippett at ILM.
Watch ILM’s ‘Wakanda Forever’ VFX breakdown
The studio has released their work showcasing the attack on the city.
The insider guide to the art and tech of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
A new VFX Notes breaks down the big ticket VFX items in the film.
Here’s how Industrial Light & Magic orchestrated Luthen’s ‘lightsaber’ ship in ‘Andor’
Plus, behind the scenes on ship builds to replicate the ‘miniatures look’, Ferrix’s shipyard, and Coruscant’s cityscapes.
Industrial Light & Magic put ‘Wakanda Forever’s’ Namor on top of a helicopter simulation to test his different flight speeds
How the VFX studio made the character fly, and how they also helped orchestrate the Talokan attack on Wakanda.
ILM’s Hal Hickel on how nostalgia and CG backlash can affect the perception of VFX
The ILM animation director gave this fantastic talk at VIEW Conference this year.
The surprising inspiration for that crazy Warg in ‘The Rings of Power’
Chihuahuas can be scary. But the real reason it served as reference for the Warg was: reality.
The puppet, mocap and CG tests behind the characters for ‘Lost Ollie’
And how ILM crafted the final intricate performances of Ollie, Rosy and Zozo.
Rob Bredow on the state of play of virtual production at ILM
The latest on StageCraft and other tech at ILM.
‘Where’s the head? When’s the head going to turn up?’
‘The Bubble’ had some slightly unusual visual effects requirements to help deliver its tongue-in-cheek tale.
Gregory, Goldie, Gault and…Matthew
A deep dive into the VFX of four fun characters featured in ‘The Sandman’.
b&a podcast: Rose Duignan and Hal Hickel on the history of ILM
The early days of ILM, the practical-to-digital transition, and the latest innovations at the studio.
4 great things I saw at SIGGRAPH
Volumetric capture, ILM in-depth, Unity's virtual camera and a fireside with Tim Miller and Gretchen Libby.
Watch ILM’s ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ VFX breakdown
Featuring StageCraft, younger Luke, Rancor and more.
The last-minute roto tool that saved the ending of ‘Death Becomes Her’
A new article on the 30th anniversary of the film.
20 minutes of ‘Lost World’ befores and afters
Universal has released this great featurette from 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' with plate and final VFX shots.
Head stretching and stomach holes: re-visiting the visual effects of ‘Death Becomes Her’
“Bob had said to Meryl Streep: ‘Whatever Ken asks you to do, no matter how silly, just go with it. You can trust him.’ Because she must have been thinking, ‘What am I? What is this stupid thing?’" - Death Becomes Her visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston.
‘I think I found my people’
'Light & Magic': a review.
Groom gains
How ILM overhauled its feather system for ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’.
This stunning shot of the Giganotosaurus in ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ is a practical head and a CG body
There are fully practical effects in the film, fully CG ones, and everything in between (and, yep, there’s even miniatures).