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Posted onFebruary 9, 2021inArticle

Some people have wondered if the Dark Troopers might be stop-motion

Posted onFebruary 6, 2021February 9, 2021inArticle

A visual journey into the Sci-Tech hair simulation winners

Posted onFebruary 4, 2021February 15, 2021inArticle

How ILM kept much of the Krayt dragon hidden in s2 of ‘The Mandalorian’

Posted onJanuary 14, 2021January 15, 2021inRetro

“I thought, ‘This is not going to work.’ But nobody has ever questioned it.”

Posted onDecember 23, 2020January 8, 2021inArticle

A ‘Midnight Sky’ VFX conversation—Part 1: LED walls, spaceships and CG face replacements

Posted onDecember 22, 2020December 23, 2020inArticle

VFX notes from the ICG ‘Mandalorian’ s2 panel

Posted onDecember 15, 2020December 16, 2020inRetro

How a test using a plate from ‘Jumanji’ helped sell the CG approach on ‘Mars Attacks!’

Posted onNovember 2, 2020November 10, 2020inArticle

Dennis Muren on the origins of ‘Stained Glass Man’ in ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’

Posted onOctober 26, 2020November 2, 2020inArticle

Watch 9 ‘Mandalorian’ VFX breakdowns all in one place

Posted onSeptember 25, 2020September 25, 2020inArticle

What a delight seeing how ILM created the Razor Crest miniature for ‘The Mandalorian’

Posted onSeptember 23, 2020September 23, 2020inRetro

‘We got cows’

Posted onSeptember 11, 2020September 11, 2020inArticle

Coming soon: a whole heap of new ILM StageCraft stages

Posted onAugust 19, 2020inRetro

Retro RenderMan: ILM’s stunning Davy Jones

Posted onAugust 3, 2020August 5, 2020inRetro

An admission: I totally forgot about the great CG spacesuits in ‘Space Cowboys’

Posted onJuly 18, 2020July 20, 2020inRetro

Miniaturization secrets: Eric Brevig on ‘The Indian in the Cupboard’

Posted onJuly 3, 2020July 6, 2020inRetro

‘Die Hard 2’: the story behind that famous final matte painting pullback

Posted onJuly 1, 2020July 2, 2020inRetro

Six ‘Perfect Storm’ SFX stories

Posted onJune 19, 2020June 29, 2020inArticle

Come hang out with ‘Mandalorian’ animation supervisor Hal Hickel

Posted onMay 28, 2020May 30, 2020inRetro

The ‘real-time’ hand-drawn animatics process that made ‘Casper’ possible

Harrison Ellenshaw
Posted onApril 15, 2020May 11, 2020inArticle, Retro

‘Empire Strikes Back’ at 40: How the iconic Slave 1 matte painting was done

Exclusive Behind The Scenes Star Wars_ The Rise of Skywalker 7-12 screenshot copy
Posted onApril 9, 2020May 11, 2020inArticle

Behind The Scenes Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Dinosaur Input Device
Posted onMarch 15, 2020May 12, 2020inArticle, Retro

The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device

Empire Strikes Back
Posted onMarch 13, 2020May 12, 2020inArticle, Retro

The way the opening tauntaun shot was done in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ still makes me flip

Mission to Mars
Posted onMarch 10, 2020May 13, 2020inArticle, Retro

Morphing through the ages in ‘Mission to Mars’

The Hunt For Red October
Posted onMarch 2, 2020May 13, 2020inArticle, Retro

Particles, ILM and ‘The Hunt For Red October’

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