The Acolyte Season 1, First Reviews
I'm very encouraged by the viewership and the reviews for our new show, The Acolyte, this week. Viewership from Variety: > “The Acolyte,” Disney+’s n...
Shows
Making Solo: A Star Wars Story
My book, ILM Presents: Making Solo A Star Wars Story is out and I got to sit down with the team at StarWars.com to chat a bit about the book. Excerpt...
Trials on Tatooine First Reviews
This week ILMxLAB did the first public play test of Trials on Tatooine at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Trails on Tatooine is a fir...
Lucasfilm Releases Trailer for Episode VII
Lucasfilm released the teaser trailer for Episode 7 today. I am loving the new job at Industrial Light and Magic and am happy to see this trailer bein...
Cloudy and The Oscars
We got this awesome email from Chris and Phil this week. It really captures the spirit of working with them: > To our incredible crew of geniuses: We...
How animated movies are made
You can thank Andy Samberg for this awesome behind-the-scenes look at how an animated movie is made....
Conspiracy?
Pink Floyd released the “Take in Back” music video in 1994. I worked long hours on one shot in the video for two weeks, laying it off to tape only min...
Flowers and Mushroom Clouds
The Pink Floyd video "Take It Back" required a number of effects shots in a short period of time. VisionArt contracted to provide the opening sequence...
Wrangling Waves
Cortes Bank is a break 100 miles off the coast of California created by a giant underwater mountain that makes the water shallow enough to create breaking waves with 30-60 foot faces in the right conditions. Sean Collins, who runs surfline.com, is the master at predicting these waves and had just moved our timetable up...
Surf's Up Course at Siggraph
On Monday, August 6th 2007, the Surf’s Up team presented a half day course detailing The Making of the Animated Documentary. If you couldn't make the...
From Mocap To Movie
Course \ 28, SIGGRAPH 2005 Los Angeles, CA, USA !0image0.avif Important Note: I am part way through reformatting these course notes from the origina...