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Industrial Light + Magic is a motion picture special visual effects company, founded in July 1975 by George Lucas. Lucas wanted Star Wars to include visual effects that had never been seen on film before. He first approached Douglas Trumbull, famous for . He declined, but suggested his assistant John Dykstra. Dykstra brought together a small team of college students, artists and engineers who became the Special Visual Effects department on Star Wars. Alongside Dykstra other leading members of the original ILM team were Dennis Muren , Joe Johnson and Phil Tippett .When making The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas reformed most of the team into Industrial Light + Magic in Marin County, California. They have since gone on to produce special effects for over two hundred films, including the Indiana Jones films, the Harry Potter films, the Jurassic Park films, many of the Star Trek films, as well as less dramatic effects in films such as Schindler's List, Snow Falling on Cedars , Magnolia, and several Woody AllenWoody Allen (b. December 1, 1935), original name Allen Stewart Konigsberg legal name Heywood Allen is one of the major American film directors and comedians of the second half of the 20th century. Introduction Following the example of Charlie Chaplin, he films.
John Lasseter worked for ILM in the early 1980s establishing their use of Computer Generated Imagery.
As of 2003, ILM has received 14 Best Visual EffectsThis is a list of films that have received an Oscar for best visual effects. 1960s 1963 Cleopatra 1964 Mary Poppins 1965 Thunderball 1966 Fantastic Voyage 1967 Doctor Dolittle 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969 Marooned 1970s 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora 1971 Bedkn Oscars and 19 additional nominations. It had also received 22 technical Oscars.
1 Early accomplishments
- 1977: Resurrected the use of VistaVision; first use of a motion control camera
- 1982: First completely computer-generated sequence (the " GenesisGenesis Planet, eliminating duplication and integrating references. In the fictional Star Trek universe, Project Genesis was a process of rapidly terraforming worlds to make them suitable for settlement and food production. The idea of the Project Genesis sequence" in Star Trek IIStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ( Paramount Pictures, 1982; see also 1982 in film) is the second feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. It is often referred to as ST2:TWOK or TWOK . It is widely regarded by fans as)
- 1985: First completely computer-generated character, the "stained glass man" in Young Sherlock Holmes
- 1988: First morphing sequence, in Willow
- 1989: First computer-generated 3-D character, the pseudopod in The Abyss
- 1991: First computer-generated main character, the T-1000 in
- 1993: First time the texture of human skin was computer generated, in Death Becomes Her
- 1994: First time digital technology used to create a complete and detailed living creature, the dinosaur in Jurassic Park, which earned ILM its thirteenth Oscar
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