Tag: Industrial Light & Magic
9-Time Oscar Winner Dennis Muren to Keynote VIEW 2018
Organizers of the 2018 VIEW Conference (Turin, Italy; Oct. 22-26) have announced that Industrial Light & Magic’s Senior Visual Effects Supervisor and Creative Director...
SIGGRAPH 2018: CG Immersion Days for Everyone
***This article originally appeared in the August ‘18 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 282)***
With advances in technologies coming at us from every direction each...
Hybride Helps ILM Direct L3-37’s Star Turn in ‘Solo’
Under the supervision of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Hybride produced 413 spectacular and innovative visual effects shots for Solo: A Star Wars Story,...
Rob Bredow to Lead ILM; Gretchen Libby Upped to VP Marketing & Production
Industrial Light & Magic (a Lucasfilm company) has appointed respected industry veteran Rob Bredow to Senior Vice President, Executive Creative Director & Head of...
FMX Adds VFX Talks on ‘Ready Player One,’ ‘The Last Jedi’
In less than two weeks, the FMX 2018 conference on animation, effects, games and immersive media returns to Stuttgart (Apr. 24-27). As plans are...
Jeff White Named Creative Director of ILM Vancouver
Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor Jeff White has assumed the role of Creative Director for Industrial Light & Magic’s Vancouver, BC studio. A 16-year...
Animation & Rigging Solutions Sweep Academy Tech Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 10 scientific and technical achievements represented by 34 individual award recipients, as well...
Lucasfilm Prez Kathleen Kennedy to Receive Cinematic Imagery Award
The Art Directors Guild has announced that eight-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and President of Lucasfilm Kathleen Kennedy will receive the 2018 Cinematic Imagery Award at...
Animation Mentor Unveils Digital Campus
Pioneering online school Animation Mentor (www.animationmentor.com) has announced its new “digital campus” -- a social learning platform where students will virtually attend classes, interact...
Lucasfilm & ILM Launch Open Source MaterialX Library
Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic announced the inaugural open source release of MaterialX Library, a CG tool developed by Lucasfilm's Advanced Development Group...
Tom Sito Joins Academy Board; Edlund Returns to VFX Branch
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced the new electees to its 2017-18 Board of Governors. Among these esteemed industry veterans,...
SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater & New VR Program Revealed
SIGGRAPH’s prestigious Computer Animation Festival has slated its Electronic Theater screenings for the 2017 event, taking place in Los Angeles from July 30-August 3....
NAB Show ‘17 Animation Highlights
The NAB confab (www.nabshow.com) is underway in Las Vegas this week. Amid all the crazy new broadcasting tech on display, there’s always a few...
FMX ’17: AMPAS Prez Cheryl Boone Isaacs, ‘Guardians,’ ‘Ghost’ & ‘Pearl’ Join Lineup
With just a week to go until FMX takes place in Stuttgart (May 2-5), organizers continue to confirm must-see additions across the schedule, including...
FMX Adds ‘Valerian,’ ‘Rogue One’ to VFX Track; Plus ‘LEGO Batman,’ ‘Moana,’ ‘Smurfs’
The audiovisual confab FMX is rapidly approaching, with the organizers announcing even more cutting edge additions to its informative tracks on animation, effects, VR,...
FMX 2017 Conference Spotlights Oscar Honorees
The international conference on animation, VFX, VR, games and transmedia known as FMX is gearing up for its 2017 edition, set for May 2-5...
Image Engine Hires Bolster Artistic Leadership
Oscar-nominated visual effects studio Image Engine is expanding its talent base with the hiring of three additional senior staff at its Vancouver headquarters: Visual...
Oscar-Winning Speakers Set for THU ’16
This year's edition of the unique digital arts event Trojan Horse was a Unicorn has revealed its speakers list for the 2016 event, to...
SIGGRAPH Sets Making-Of Sessions for Films, Games and Beyond
SIGGRAPH 2016 will run its world-leading conference and exhibition at the Anaheim Convention Center in SoCal this July 24-28. Under the banner of “Render...
Animation Vets Launch Cloud-Based Studio Artella
A new global collaboration platform for animated film, videogame and virtual reality content production called Artella has arrived on the scene. Founded by animation...
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