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John Knoll and Dennis Muren to Speak at Celebration

John Knoll and Dennis Muren will be giving speeches at this year’s Star Wars Celebration, the every-two-year convention of everything “Star Wars”.

Knoll is Industrial Light & Magic’s Chief Creative Officer. Muren is ILM’s Creative Director.

Also making speeches are Christian Alzmann (an art director at Industrial Light & Magic), J.J. Abrams (director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens), and Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm.

http://www.starwarscelebration.com/Guests/Special-Guests/?campaignid=61861987&iusercampaignid=85839391

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Scott Farrar talks about TRANSFORMERS 4

Scott Farrar, ILM visual effects supervisor, talks about "Transformers: Age of Extinction" on AWN.

Link: http://www.awn.com/vfxworld/ilm-s-scott-farrar-talks-transformers-age-extinction

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ILM has released "Behind the Magic: The Visual Effects of 'Transformers Age of Extinction'".

Scott Farrar was ILM's visual effects supervisor. Co-visual effects supervisor was Pat Tubach. Animation director was Scott Benza, and animation supervisor was Rick O'Connor.

At the time of posting, ILM credits were not posted to ILM.com.

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ILM - Behind the Magic: The Visual Effects of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”

ILM’s visual effects supervisor for “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” was Russell Earl.

Direct link: http://youtu.be/pszNJBHpFKw

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ILM President Lynwen Brennan Quoted in Fortune

ILM's President, Lynwen Brennan, was quoted in a Fortune piece on Disney CEO Bob Iger.

With Lucasfilm and ILM—and Pixar and Marvel—Iger has brought multiple cash cows into the Disney fold, not to mention supplemented his arsenal of frontier tech. But the true upside of this intermingling of innovation centers isn’t something that translates simply to a P&L, says ILM’s president, Lynwen Brennan. The more substantive change, dare we say, is to that squishy buzz-concept known as corporate culture. Disney is different these days. “Synergy” actually means something here, says Brennan. “They’re very supportive of us pushing new avenues and new ways to think about things.”

Link: http://fortune.com/2014/12/29/disney-ceo-bob-iger-empire-of-tech/

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ILM Created Visual Effects for "Selma"

ILM provided key visual effects for director Ava DuVernay's "Selma", according the Wall Street Journal, in a pivotal explosion sequence:

For the explosion, Industrial Light and Magic created the computer-generated effect that sends debris flying across the screen. Ms. DuVernay tried three unsatisfactory special effects companies before Paramount paid for top-of-the-line ILM (not part of the film’s initial budget).

At press time, there is no indication of "Selma" on ILM.com.

Wall Street Journal, "‘Selma’ Works to Humanize History":  http://www.wsj.com/articles/selma-works-to-humanize-history-1418312664

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ILM Contributed To China's "Ultimate Energy"

ILM visual effects supervisor Lindy DeQuattro is featured in a video for "Wanda Movie Park Ultimate Energy", which appears to be a ride-film for China's Wuhan. Unfortunately, DeQuattro's name is misspelled in the video.

Also featured in the video is ILM alumni Eric Brevig, who is credited as a "director" of the project.

Link:  http://wuhan.wandamoviepark.com/about/introduction/video.html

The Los Angeles Times reported on the massive $8 billion development project.  Link:  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-wanda-projects-20141220-story.html

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John Knoll: ILM's 10.6 Billion Dollar Man

John Knoll in 2005, promoting ILM’s work in  ”Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith” As of November 2013, if you add up worldwide box-office earnings of the films in which John Knoll was Industrial Light & Magic’s visual effects supervisor, you would get a total of $10.652 billion dollars.

Source: Box Office Mojo, showing my work: Pacific Rim $408M, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol 695M, Hugo 186M, Avatar 2.781B, Shopaholic 108M, Speed Racer 94M, Pirates 3 961M, Pirates 2 1.066B, Star Wars III 849M, Pirates 1 654M, Star Wars II 649M, Mission to Mars 111M, Deep Blue Sea 165M, Star Wars I 924M, Star Trek First Contact 146M, Mission Impossible 458M, Star Trek Generations 118M, Baby’s Day Out 17M, Hudson Hawk 17M.

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Battleship - Featurette: "Enemies from Another World"

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Lucasfilm stuns Marin, pulls plug on Grady Ranch movie studio project

From The Marin Independent Journal:  "Lucasfilm pulled the plug on its bid to develop the old Grady Ranch Tuesday, citing bitter opposition from neighbors and regulatory delays, and said it intends to sell the land for a low-income subdivision development."

more:  http://www.marinij.com/sananselmo/ci_20365489/lucasfilm-stuns-marin-pulls-plug-grady-ranch-movie

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THR: ILM Looking at Vancouver

The Hollywood Reporter:  Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Magic Exploring Opening New Facility in Vancouver

Favorable tax incentives are drawing leading animation and VFX companies to the Canadian city.

Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Magic is exploring opening a project-based facility in Vancouver sometime next spring.

ILM, based in San Francisco, declined to comment because details are not yet finalized, but word of the new ILM outpost was spreading this week at the CG confab Siggraph, taking place in Vancouver, where favorable tax incentives have turned the city into  one of the hottest destinations for the visual effects and animation community.

Should ILM head to Vancouver, it will be the latest in a string of leading companies that in recent years have set up shop in the production hub -- including Digital Domain, Pixar Animation Studios, MPC and Sony Picture Imageworks.

In addition to its San Francisco headquarters, ILM also operates out of Lucasfilm Singapore, which opened in 2005 and is already running out of space.

more:  http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lucasfilms-industrial-light-magic-exploring-221520

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ILM Working on "The Avengers"

As a companion piece to a Kevin Clark article (here), All Things D wrote a follow-up article that includes a video tour of Lucasfilm's digital firepower.

In the article, they confirm that ILM will be creating visual effects for the upcoming "The Avengers" film.  It is unknown who will be the visual effects supervisor for the film.

At press time, the fact that ILM is working on "The Avengers" was not on ilm.com.

http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/20110325/lucasfilms-data-center-and-an-encounter-with-the-real-death-star-video/

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YouTube: The Virtual Camera of "Rango"

Learn about the virtual camera used in "Rango" by ILM supervisor Colin Benoit and Tim Alexander.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evmBM6oOwok

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CG Society: "Rango"'s Tim Alexander

A visual effects supervisor would need to be something of a chameleon to switch an experienced crew working with a pipeline built for a live-action film to full production on an animated feature. But, for Tim Alexander, visual effects supervisor for director Gore Verbinski’s ‘Rango,’ the opportunity to ride herd on a new frontier was downright wonderful.

Alexander led the crew of 325 artists at Industrial Light & Magic who turned Verbinski’s vision and production designer Mark ‘Crash�� McCreery’s artwork into a weird and wacky animated spaghetti western starring an assortment of matted, mottled, and mangy creatures. The Paramount release is the first animated film for Verbinski and the first animated feature from ILM. It stars Johnny Depp in the title role, and a herd of other actors including Ned Beatty as a turtle and Abigail Breslin as a gothic Madagascar rat. Boasting an 88 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, ‘Rango’ galloped to the top of the US box office on opening weekend with an attendance record that beat ‘How to Train Your Dragon’s’ opening. Critics and audiences praise the story, the direction and the production.

Full article here:

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=6141

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"Rango" at NAB

Trailblazing animation director Hal Hickel and visual effects supervisor John Knoll, both with Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), and production designer Crash McCreery will take audiences on a wild ride through the new frontier of animation and visual effects at the 2011 NAB Show in a session titled "Rango: The Next Step in CG Animation."

"Rango" centers on a contemporary pet chameleon who finds himself appointed sheriff when he stumbles to the Wild West town of Dirt. The panel will showcase how the ILM crew brought the surreal southwestern setting and richly detailed characters to life by applying live-action techniques to the dialogue recording, lighting, costuming and animation pipeline.

Variety's associate editor of features, David Cohen, will moderate the discussion, which will be held in the Content Theater on Tuesday, April 12 at 11:30am. The 2011 NAB Show takes place April 9-14 in Las Vegas.

full article:  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110321006814/en/Box-Office-Champ-Rango-Wrangled-2011-NAB

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Chat with "Rango" Supervisor Tim Alexander

Chat [transcript] with Variety's David S. Cohen and Tim Alexander of 'Rango'

Full chat transcript:  http://weblogs.variety.com/technotainment/2011/03/chat-with-varietys-david-s-cohen-and-tim-alexander-of-rango.html

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25% of "Rango" done in Singapore

A whole quarter of the work on Rango was done [in Singapore], with Singapore-based talent from visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Singapore, a division of Lucasfilm Ltd. Working in tandem with ILM's San Francisco headquarters, the job was completed in only 15 months.

Full article:  http://www.todayonline.com/Entertainment/Movies/EDC110309-0000143/Home-on-the-Rango