by Lucas Seastrom | Dec 20, 2024 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized
The visual effects supervisor talks Cassandra Nova, Gambit, and more. By Dan Brooks (Credit: Disney) In a surprise twist midway through Deadpool & Wolverine, our titular protagonists are marooned in the Void: a Mad Max-like wasteland of desert and forgotten...
by Ella Greig | Dec 6, 2024 | San Francisco News
The visual effects supervisor sheds light on the process behind developing the series’ fantastical realm. By Jay Stobie The Two Trees of Valinor in a shot from Season One (Credit: Amazon). Based on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The...
by Ella Greig | Nov 27, 2024 | San Francisco News
Industrial Light & Magic brings creative commotion to the creatures and New York cityscape of A Quiet Place: Day One. By Clayton Sandell Alex Wolff as “Reuben” in A Quiet Place: Day One (Credit: Paramount Pictures). Surviving the extra-terrestrial terror of A...
by Lucas Seastrom | Nov 15, 2024 | San Francisco News, Vision & Craft
Heads still roll 25 years later in the Tim Burton classic Sleepy Hollow (1999). Revisit all of the eerie magic behind Industrial Light & Magic’s work that brought Washington Irving’s folktale to life and reintroduced audiences to one of cinema’s greatest on-screen...
by Ella Greig | Nov 8, 2024 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized
For Transformers one, the art department aimed to create shapes and silhouettes that appeared clean and simple from a distance, yet included intricate, purposeful details up-close, such as cut lines in the panels, smaller inset geometry, and layered panel work. Given...
by Lucas Seastrom | Nov 8, 2024 | San Francisco News, Vision & Craft
After 38 years, the veteran effects artist is retiring. By Lucas O. Seastrom First opening in 1987, the original Star Tours attraction at Disneyland included what was the most complex optical composite created at Industrial Light & Magic up to that time. A “view”...
