Star Wars has been a huge influence on visual effects in cinema. Lucasfilm and its VFX division Industrial Light & Magic (ILM ...

Star Wars Field Guide, supposedly set on a new Star Wars planet, is basically a compilation of barely moving AI-generated ...

The nascent ILM bashed thousands of model kit pieces together to create the film’s unique spacecrafts, and built a computer-aided, motion-controlled ... was pure movie magic, and the birth ...

“Light & Magic” is of course a trip down memory ... from the wonky and technical – John Dykstra discussing the motion-control system concocted to capture the dogfight sequences in “Star ...

One of the sharpest blades in George Lucas’ scabbard was his effects department. The team at Industrial Light & Magic helped make Star Wars a hit by proving that technological innovation and ...

while Industrial Light & Magic effects artist Dennis Muren explains how they planned out the shoot. "Sometimes we'd get a shot a day, if we were doing real good." Before settling on stop-motion ...