Industrial Light & Magic:The Art of Innovation: The Art of Innovation - Hardcover

Glintenkamp, Pamela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810998025 ISBN 13: 9780810998025

Publisher: Abrams, 2011

Synopsis

"Industrial Light & Magic" tells the story, through the words of the filmmakers, artists, and technicians who forever changed the world of cinema, of the multiple-Academy-Award-winning visual effects house, Industrial Light & Magic, which was founded by George Lucas in 1975 and celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2010. Featuring never-before-seen imagery, "Industrial Light and Magic" begins with the tale of a small team of students, engineers, and artists who pioneered analogue effects that had never been attempted or realised on the screen for "Star Wars" (1977), and continues through the company's rapid expansion and work, over the next three decades, on more than three hundred films - and into the digital and computer-generated effects era - including the "Star Wars Saga", "the Indiana Jones" series, "the Back to the Future" trilogy, several "Star Trek" films, "the Jurassic Park" trilogy, "the Harry Potter" franchise, "Ghostbusters II", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "the Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, "Iron Man", "Avatar", and the "Transformers" films. This richly illustrated book, featuring extensive commentary by George Lucas, Dennis Murren, John Knoll, Pablo Helman, Rob Coleman, Lorne Peterson, and others, covers the entire scope of ILM's history and filmography, but focuses on the state-of-the art accomplishments and technical achievements from 1996 onward, offering a crash course and behind-the-scenes view on the most groundbreaking effects being created today.

About this title

About the Author

Pamela Glintenkamp is a writer and producer. As the director of the Lucasfilm Archival History Project, she interviewed more than 100 individuals who worked on Lucasfilm projects throughout its history.

From the Back Cover

Industrial Light & Magic is an extensively illustrated oral history of the multiple-Academy-Award?-winning visual-effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975. A behind-the-scenes record of the state-of-the-art innovations that have driven movie-making magic, the book features candid stories from the filmmakers, artists, and technicians who were there, breaking barriers and changing the history of cinema. \nIndustrial Light & Magic recounts the company's rapid expansion over three decades and, in particular, the last 16 years, detailing its work on dozens of big-budget films-from optical printing to the digital and computer-generated effects era. Featuring extensive commentary by George Lucas, Dennis Murren, John Knoll, Pablo Helman, Roger Guyett, Ben Snow, Rob Coleman, Lorne Peterson, and many others, these stories and images focus on ILM's breakthroughs for films from 1995 onward, such as the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Transformers, Iron Man, and the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, offering a crash course on the most groundbreaking visual effects being created today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810998025
• ISBN 13: 9780810998025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 357