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02-11-2008: Industrial Light & Magic takes top honors at 6th Annual VES Awards. Company receives it’s 20th Sci-Tech Award from Academy.
At the 6th annual Visual Effects Society Awards held at the Kodak Grand Ballroom in Los Angeles Industrial Light &
Magic kicked off the 2008 awards season in style winning six of the feature film categories, including the night's top honors.
The winning entries were split between Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2 Wins) and Transformers (4 wins).
Additionally, ILM's innovative water system received a Scientific & Technical Achievement Award from the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at a separate ceremony held Saturday evening at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The Award,
for the ILM Fluid Simulation System System, marked the 20th time the company has been recognized by the Sci-Tech branch of the Academy.
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05-14-2007: Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound Connect with
Marvel Studios for Iron Man
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a division of
Lucasfilm Ltd. announced today that it has come on board as the principle visual effects
house on the new Marvel Studios production of Iron Man. Sister company Skywalker
Sound, which houses EFILM’s northern California outpost, completes the post
production triumvirate. Skywalker Sound will handle sound design and mix duties for the
film.
Marvel Studios’ big screen adaptation of Marvel’s legendary Super Hero Iron Man, will
launch into theaters on May 2, 2008. Oscar® nominee Robert Downey, Jr. stars as Tony
Stark/Iron Man in the story of a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is
kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and
ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he
uncovers a nefarious plot with global implication, he dons his powerful armor and vows
to protect the world as Iron Man. The film also stars Oscar® nominee Terrence Howard,
Oscar® winner Gwyneth Paltrow and Oscar® nominee Jeff Bridges and will be directed
by Jon Favreau. Paramount Pictures will distribute the film domestically and in various
international territories. Click here to read more... |
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02-26-2007: Industrial Light & Magic receives Academy Award® for Dead Man's Chest effects work.
Last evening at the 79th Annual Academy Awards® Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, received its fifteenth Oscar® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. ILM Visual Effects Supervisor, John Knoll, and Animation Supervisor, Hal Hickel, were each honored for their groundbreaking work on Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. ILM's efforts on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest were also recognized by the British Academy of Film and Television taking home the BAFTA for visual effects as well as six Visual Effects Society Awards. Click here to read more... |
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01-23-2007: Industrial Light & Magic tops Academy Effects
Nominations with nods for both Pirates and Poseidon
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their nominations for the 79th Academy
Awards®. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, was recognized
for its groundbreaking work on both Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and
Poseidon, each receiving a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Effects. Click here to read more... |
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06-26-2006: ILM at Siggraph 2006
The Siggraph organization’s national convention is one of Industrial Light + Magic’s targeted recruiting venues. Each year numerous digital artists and technology professionals from post-production facilities and animation houses around the world interview with ILM employees in pursuit of possible full-time and project-based positions. If you would like to be considered for one of these roles, click here for more information. |
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11-15-2005: ILM awarded National Medal of Technology
Industrial Light & Magic was recognized today by President Bush as one of the 2004 National Medal of Technology recipients, the nation's highest honor for technological innovation.
"I join President Bush in congratulating the 2004 National Medal of Technology laureates," said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez. "Their creativity and willingness to take risks to achieve technological breakthroughs have helped make America the leader in innovation."
ILM was among five companies and two individuals recognized today. For the past 30 years, ILM has been redefining the possibilities of the motion picture image through innovations in visual effects technology, ushering in the digital age of cinema that has granted filmmakers unparalleled freedom in visual storytelling.
National Medal of Technology, bestowed by the President since 1985 as the nation's highest award for innovation, was mandated by Congress in 1980 to recognize the significant contributions that America's leading innovators have made to the nation's economic strength and standard of living. A distinguished, independent committee appointed by the Secretary of Commerce evaluates the merits of all candidates nominated through an open, competitive solicitation process. Committee recommendations are forwarded to the Secretary, who makes recommendations to the President for a final decision. The Technology Administration administers the National Medal of Technology program.
Click here for a full list of recipients, or visit this site for additional information.
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07-11-2005: ILM at Siggraph 2005
ILM was well-represented across the board at this year's SIGGRAPH, from George Lucas's Keynote presentation, to entries in Electronic Theater, Special Sessions, Papers, Courses, Sketches, and Exhibits.
Join Hyperspace to listen to George Lucas's Keynote Q&A, or a special Star Wars Retrospective from ILM. You can listen online or download the audio files via the exclusive AudioCast player. |
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02-24-2005: ILM Awards and Achievements
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Academy Awards® - Nomination for Best Achievement in Visual Effects
BAFTA® Awards - Nomination for Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Saturn Awards - Nomination for Best Special Effects
VES Awards - Win for Best Visual Effects in an Effects-Driven Motion Picture
Congratulations to Roger Guyett, Bill George and the entire ILM team!
The Chronicles of Riddick
Saturn Awards - Nomination for Best Special Effects
Congratulations to Pablo Helman and the ILM crew!
Van Helsing
Saturn Awards - Nomination for Best Special Effects - Van Helsing.
Congratulations to Scott Squires, Ben Snow, Daniel Jeannette, Syd Dutton, and the ILM team!
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08-10-2004: OpenEXR Update
Industrial Light & Magic Announces Update to OpenEXR TM - Open Source
Extended Dynamic Range Image File Format
San Rafael, Calif. - August 10, 2004- Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a
Lucasfilm Ltd. company, today announced the update to OpenEXR
(www.openexr.net), its pioneering open source extended dynamic range
image file format. In a continuing effort to promote an open source
industry standard for an extended dynamic range file format, ILM put
considerable effort into this production-ready update.
New features include:
- Support for tiled images, including mipmaps and ripmaps.
- New Pxr24 compressor contributed by Pixar Animation Studios.
- Support of high dynamic range YCA (luminance/chroma/alpha) images with subsampled chroma channels.
- Abstracted file I/O allowing it to be used with interfaces other than C++'s iostreams.
- New utilities for manipulating tiled images files.
"Since OpenEXR's original launch, there has been an overwhelming
response to the file format," says Cliff Plumer, Chief Technology
Officer at ILM. "We have seen the adoption of OpenEXR from
organizations in the effects industry as well as the software, hardware,
academic and even gaming communities. With this new version we've
incorporated some key features that we developed as well as the ongoing
contributions and improvements by the development community."
OpenEXR is a 16 and 32-bit, floating-point file format with much greater
dynamic range than existing 8- and 10-bit file formats. Though it does
not require a graphics card, it is fully compatible with the
floating-point pixel formats supported by the latest graphics hardware.
Its lossless data compression achieves compression ratios of 2:1 for
scanned film images. ILM originally implemented its own extended
dynamic range file format EXR in the summer of 2000. EXR was battle
tested on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Men in Black II, Gangs
of New York and Signs with fantastic success. Since its inception it
has been used on such productions as The Hulk, Van Helsing, Pirates of
the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban and is currently being used on Star Wars: Episode
III "Revenge of the Sith"
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is a Lucasfilm Ltd. company serving the
digital needs of the entertainment industry for visual effects. ILM has
been awarded 14 Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and received 17
Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards.
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