Hyperspace members: Inside ILM’s Halloween party. I can’t watch video at the moment, so comment if you see anyone familiar. Or anyone wearing something really cool. Or both.
Don’t quit your day job?
Heroes‘ Masi Oka does consulting work for ILM three times a week, despite finding acting sucess. He worked on the prequels and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Enterprise prop makes for big bucks
A model of the Enterprise-D sold at auction for $576,000 today at Christie’s. The model was built by ILM (!) and used in The Next Generation series and the film Generations.
Fishy business
How ILM made Davy Jones. Also, a user on the Livejournal starwars community thinks Jones resembles a Quarren. I’m not so sure. Maybe a cousin. Hybrid?
ILM is everywhere
Star Wars may be over, but ILM certainly isn’t slowing down – they have a staggering amount of work on their plate, including The Spiderwick Chronicles, Eragon, Transformers and the next Harry Potter film.
For folks wondering about some of the technical aspects involved, eWeek talks to ILM, among others, about digital storage.
Rumor-mongering: O RLY?
T’bone has heard a rumor that ILM may be outsourced to India. Grain of salt. Big heaping grains of salt.
ETA: Check the comments for some more looking into the issue.
ETA2: From the inside: Pablo calls bullshit.
Modelmaker to take ILM unit solo
Industrial Light & Magic is in negotiations to sell their physical production unit. The purchaser is Mark Anderson, a model maker who’s worked for ILM for 15 years. The unit will be renamed Kerner Optical and continue as a ILM preferred subcontractor in addition to seeking work from other sources.
Employees were informed yesterday, and the company hopes the deal will be finalized in 60 days.
ILM receives National Medal of Technology
President Bush awarded the National Medal of Technology to Industrial Light & Magic today. George Lucas and ILM president Chrissie England were on hand to accept the honor.
ETA: AP article on the event, via Lucas Online.
More award news
There are a couple of other ILM folks up for Oscars, and John Williams has two nominations. I think he has enough to build a house. A house of Oscars.
Breakfast with George
ILM turns 30, and The Hollywood Reporter interviews George Lucas, among other things. (Via SF Signal)