Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder blogged briefly from a presentation the ILM VFX Supervisor gave at the TED conference yesterday in California. (via)
Down on Skywalker ranch
Work for the fabulous Mary Franklin!
Lucasfilm needs a Fan Events Coordinator for Celebration Japan ‘and other potential events.’ Meet famous people! Go to Japan! Work for Mary! And get paid for it!
No event planning experience? Nonexistent language skills? Check out LFL’s other available positions. (You could be Pablo’s intern!)
io9 visits The Presidio
Gawker’s sci-fi blog gets a look inside, peek at upcoming games.
New licensee to make costumes and armor
Museum Replicas’ Windlass Studios will make replica clothing and armor for Star Wars fans. They’ll have booths at the International Costume Show Las Vegas, San Diego Comic-Con and Dragon*Con. I’ll be interested to see how this is received by the costuming community…
More on the wildly popular Rejected Star Wars
Jason Geyer posted a followup to his Rejected Star Wars entry, which has now spread all over the fannish blogsphere:
A few things I did want to clarify about the “Rejected” Star Wars concepts: “Rejected!” is the name of my ongoing series of unmade stuff. But not all of these were rejected by Lucasfilm. We don’t know how many of these were actually seen by Lucasfilm- they were presented to Pepsi first and then those concepts they liked were sent on to Lucas Licensing. So possibly a very small sample was shown to Lucasfilm.
ILM dominates VES with giant robots, tentacles
Industrial Light & Magic was the big winner at the Visual Effects Society awards Sunday. They received six awards: Four for Transformers and two for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
Transformers got Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture, Best Single Visual Effect of the Year (for the Desert Highway Sequence,) Outstanding Models or Miniatures in a Motion Picture, and Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture. At World’s End took Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture (for Davy Jones) and Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture (for the Maelstrom.)
Other genre winners included Battlestar Galactica – Razor (Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or Special) and Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix (Outstanding Special Effects in a Motion Picture.)
Rejected Star Wars product proposals
Action Figure Insider founder Jason Geyer pens a sad tale of (mostly) rejected Star Wars merchandise concepts.
So, they’ll make window blinds, but not a Han in Carbonite minifridge or a Jabba beanbag? For shame, LFL. For shame.
ETA: Read the followup.
Jim Ward steps down
Kotaku is reporting that LucasArts president Jim Ward has resigned “for personal reasons.” IGN reports that Howard Roffman will be filling in.
Kotaku also has word from Ward himself.
In the News: Wednesday morning reading list
- Leia abandons Padme and Chewie! Luckily, zookeepers stepped in to save the pair of critically endangered tamarin monkeys babies.
- Geek Gestalt celebrates ILM and Skywalker Sound’s Oscar noms, while StarWars.com has quotes and the complete lineup.
- Homeland Security channels the Death Star with a military grade throwable digital camera.
- Cleveland firm restores stained glass at Skywalker Ranch.
