P1. Industrial Light and Magic

Industrial Light and Magic

Industrial light and magic was first founded in 1975 by George Lucas, and was especially set up to create visual effects for his successful film Star Wars. At the time it was the first facility which focused only on visual effects, but afterwards many other post-production and special effect warehouses were set up. Now ILM houses are set up in San Francisco and Singapore, and concentrates on helping motion picture, commercial production and attraction industry; and have done visual effects for around 300 feature films, helping out on 10 of the top 15 box office films.


ILM focuses on:

- traditional arts of blue screen photography
- matte painting
- model construction
- motion controlled cameras
- computer graphics
-  digital imaging
- digital compositing
- morphing
- simulations
- enveloping
- film input scanning
-wire removal
- motion control
- imo cap
- EXR file format

ILM has done visual effects for large box office films such as:

- Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest
- Jurassic Park
- Star wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
- The Abyss
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- Death Becomes Her
- The Mask
- Twister
- The Perfect Storm

Projects at ILM are a combination of concept design, computer graphics effects, models and miniatures, digital environments and state-of-the-art animation. For 30 years the ILM has been running, and the workers there have PhDs specialising in things such as software engineering, traditional animation, expert model making and texture art.