Founded in 1975, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a division of Lucasfilm Productions, has been a major player in the field of visual effects. From what was shown in the first three star Wars From movies to game-changing action Jurassic ParkIf you’ve seen a heavy-handed movie from the past several decades, there’s a good chance ILM will work on it in some way or form. For Lenwyn Brennan, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Lucasfilm, she sees George Clooney driving it perfect storm As a film it was important not only to the company, but to the history of visual effects in general.
I had the opportunity to speak with Lynwen Brennan as part of the press event for the documentary series Light & Magic, which explores ILM’s origins and impact on the film industry. It can be watched in its entirety with a Disney+ subscription now. During our conversation, I asked Brennan what she considers ILM’s greatest technical achievement, whether it’s a character, a creature, a ship, or just a general impact. I started with the following:
There is a lot and it is constantly evolving and constantly changing. My easiest answer to that is the last one we did because every day on this job, we start from the beginning thinking, “How are we going to do that?” Because whatever comes to us is really about solving a problem with the story or putting something on the screen in the director’s head, but we don’t have a way to do that. My favorite is the one we just did, because then you have that euphoria of knowing you made it through. Over time, I think it can often be difficult to get them done. So whether that was the water in Perfect Storm, because if you think at the time we were doing Perfect Storm, digital water wasn’t really a thing. And we took a movie where Digital Water was the main character in the movie and we had to do it in a reasonable way. Everyone knows what water looks like. They don’t necessarily know what a monster looks like. So you can get a lot with a monster.
If you are not familiar with perfect stormThe film (which some would consider one of George Clooney’s best films) was based on the true story of the Andrea Gail merchant fishing vessel lost at sea during the perfect storm of 1991. Of course, since one cannot recreate such circumstances in real life, It was up to the minds at Lucasfilm to convincingly bring those violent waters to life in a digital setting, and make them work with the footage captured by director Wolfgang Peterson and his team. Along with George Clooney, The Perfect Storm’s troupe included Mark Wahlberg, John C.Reilly, Dian Lane, William Fichtner, perfect storm It was one of six films released in 2000 that ILM worked on, and the other films Mission to MarsAnd the The Adventures of Rocky and BullwinkleAnd the space cowboyAnd the Bullock And the push it forward.
After more than two decades perfect stormLenwyn Brennan is still impressed by how good the digital waters are in the film, but that’s not all she had to say about ILM’s accomplishments still stuck in her head. continued:
That’s what comes to mind, that sense of relief when we’ve actually completed work on that, into our current work on some of the digital human work that we’re doing. Then Stagecraft is another one when we agreed to take it on a budget, and within a period of time, we didn’t know if we’d be able to put it off. To be able to walk this big and fool your mind, it never ceases to amaze me. So this is my current favorite, anything we do on Stagecraft, because it’s really really cool how they push each series separately.
StageCraft is a turnkey virtual production technology consisting of video walls initially developed for star Wars series The Mandalorianand has since been used in productions not only in a galaxy far, far away, but also in Marvel movies like Thor: Love and Thunder and next Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniaand DC movies like Batman and next black Adam. These facilities, known as ‘volumes’, have already made waves (to borrow from them perfect storm) in the visual effects industry, and until he knows how StageCraft came together, Lynwen Brennan is still amazed at what this technology can do.
Lucasfilm’s next production is star Wars series AndorAmong the upcoming films of 2022 featuring ILM’s work Black Panther: Wakanda Forever And the Avatar: Road to Water. To catch up on the latest movie and TV action, keep your eyes peeled on CinemaBlend.
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