ILM: Creating the Impossible [part 1]

ILM: Creating the Impossible [wikipedia]
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Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an Academy Award-winning motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas and is owned by Lucasfilm. Lucas created the company when he discovered that the special effects department at 20th Century Fox was shut down after he was given the green light for his production of the film Star Wars. The studio originated in Van Nuys, California, later moved to San Rafael, and is now based at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio of San Francisco.

[@Poever]

ILM... now in the hands of Disney. That saddens me, now we'll never look at them the same way

[@AwsumessPrime14]

True the stories aren't good on some of those movies, but at least there is something special about the visuals that are worth enjoying.

[@AlDelcyCreative]

ILM has nothing to do with how good the movie is.

[@FunkMobbMack]

Holy crap theyre right in San Rafael. I use to go there all of the time. Nice!

[@BodhiTOuellette]

I find it funny now, that almost every big blockbuster movie that uses ILM, Disney is involved in it, even if it's not a Disney film. That's pretty hilarious. But it just shows how important LucasFilm is to modern films. If it weren't for Star Wars, we wouldn't have this incredible company. I mean, someone probably would start something similar to ILM, but, I'm just saying, if it weren't for George Lucas and his crew, we wouldn't have this amazing stuff we have today.

[@wommpomm]

i remember this at the dominion tottenham court road to this day, the sound and they were the first! Everything comes from this... everything

[@telboy1965]

ILM leaders in there field and complete legends

[@carlosaguilar6843]

Where are the Encore ID’s and bumpers, the HD variants, to be exact?
According to the info online, the Next & Later screen used a waterfall background, while the Tonight schedule bumper used a panning shot of some canyon, respectively.

[@NukePerseyus]

THIS HUGE! what a finding!

[@bouchandre]

ILM was hired late in the process when the shots were to complicated for Weta. Proving how much ILM kicks ass.

[@felixgonzaelz3360]

I love it ILM

[@TheART3C]

Well actually, ILM didn´t do avatar, at least not much, Weta Digital did nearly everything in avatar. Although i won´t deny ILM´s VFX is breathtaking

[@MarkArandjus]

Hey yeah, I never realized this. Star Wars was the biggest hit ever, but while it was influential in it's wake there wasn't a whole genre of science-fantasy ripping it off, and I'm guessing it's because it was so technologically ahead of it's time?

[@yellowcougar18]

Avatar was not an ILM job. Weta(owned by Peter JAckson) did the majority of the animation for Avatar. ILM, I will grant you, came on the project at the last minute, when the film was 40 minutes longer than it was meant to be. They handled some of the vehicles, and the planets they were in. This is not unusual for films (Rhythm and hues and digital doman often step in to help out ILM, for example) but Avatar was mostly Weta animation's baby.

[@Zachary1981]

Thank you for this :)

[@NewtotheNW]

"We're the tricksters" Oh, so this is where Loki should work?

[@bouchandre]

I know, but if I didn't had excluded them, I would've gotten a lot of hate.

[@SamuelFaict.Filmmaker]

And agressive too.

[@bouchandre]

I know all that, but they mentionned avatar in the video.

[@MMerajHossain]

and I Thought ILM was New..... :D

[@AlDelcyCreative]

yeah, but their work on the product was done well, they have nothing to do with the storyline. If I'm hiring ILM to do a project, I'm not gonna look at how good the movie they worked on was, i'm gonna look at how good they did their job on the CG VFX, regardless of the story itself.

[@SamuelFaict.Filmmaker]

But they put their name on the product.

[@bouchandre]

if you thought that Avatar and (to a certain extent) transformers were awful, then you must be one of those movie snobs who doesn't like a movie if it's not exactly how you pictured it.

[@zeeworldtrollord6941]

@bouchandre - If Avatar and Transformers weren't awful movies, I question whether or not your eyes were open when you watched them! Were they?
I AM ZEEWORLD TROLLORD AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!

[@bouchandre]

Well, avatar, iron man (1), transformers (1), star wars (not the prequels), e.t., jurassic park, etc. Those aren't awful movies

[@bouchandre]

it wasn't awful

[@davidhellberg8997]

Ehhh... You concider Transformers as good...

[@BorderHopper408]

the majority buys crap, atleast im not the outcast

[@SamuelFaict.Filmmaker]

Because most people buy crap, and you are one of them, thet is why you think I am weird.

[@SamuelFaict.Filmmaker]

Sadly all the movie examples are awful movies.