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"Industrial Light & Magic" tells the story, through the words of the filmmakers, artists, and technicians who forever changed the world of cinema, of the multiple-Academy-Award-winning visual effects house, Industrial Light & Magic, which was founded by George Lucas in 1975 and celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2010. Featuring never-before-seen imagery, "Industrial Light and Magic" begins with the tale of a small team of students, engineers, and artists who pioneered analogue effects that had never been attempted or realised on the screen for "Star Wars" (1977), and continues through the company's rapid expansion and work, over the next three decades, on more than three hundred films - and into the digital and computer-generated effects era - including the "Star Wars Saga", "the Indiana Jones" series, "the Back to the Future" trilogy, several "Star Trek" films, "the Jurassic Park" trilogy, "the Harry Potter" franchise, "Ghostbusters II", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "the Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, "Iron Man", "Avatar", and the "Transformers" films. This richly illustrated book, featuring extensive commentary by George Lucas, Dennis Murren, John Knoll, Pablo Helman, Rob Coleman, Lorne Peterson, and others, covers the entire scope of ILM's history and filmography, but focuses on the state-of-the art accomplishments and technical achievements from 1996 onward, offering a crash course and behind-the-scenes view on the most groundbreaking effects being created today.
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Pamela Glintenkamp is a writer and producer. As the director of the Lucasfilm Archival History Project, she interviewed more than 100 individuals who worked on Lucasfilm projects throughout its history.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having been a huge fan of the previous two ILM books The Art Of Special Effects and Into The Digital Realm) I was excited to see this book coming out , bring upto date ILM's work in more recent times. Having now had the opportunity to read the book I feel a degree of disappointment and a missed opportunity.
Firstly compared to the previous two books it looks smaller and thinner and this is explained by the use of non- glossy paper, a huge mistake when you are presenting lavish movie images.
Secondly the quality of the images ranges from the shocking (blurred, grainy) to exceptional and this is extremely disappointing as the previous two books overcame this very well. An example of what you are in for can be found in the first four pages- a horrible double page spread of a matte painting from Kuosawa's 'Dreams' which looks like it has been lifted from an old VHS copy to an incredibly crisp image from Iron Man 2 accompanying Jon Favreau's introduction to the book. The book is full of these contrasts and it is a shame as clean images of these shots can be found in a variety of magazines.
Then there is the complete omission of 'Hulk' which contains some of the most difficult effects shot ever produced by ILM'S at the time. This alone gets one star dropped for this book.
All in all I would recommend people get the book for the many great images of those fantastic movies that it does contain but be prepared to grimace every 3rd or 4th page as you get a grainy, blurred image. This could and should have been so much better and the author could have learnt a thing or two from looking at the previous two ILM books rather that trying to deny their existence as the narrative in this book often hints at.
Firstly compared to the previous two books it looks smaller and thinner and this is explained by the use of non- glossy paper, a huge mistake when you are presenting lavish movie images.
Secondly the quality of the images ranges from the shocking (blurred, grainy) to exceptional and this is extremely disappointing as the previous two books overcame this very well. An example of what you are in for can be found in the first four pages- a horrible double page spread of a matte painting from Kuosawa's 'Dreams' which looks like it has been lifted from an old VHS copy to an incredibly crisp image from Iron Man 2 accompanying Jon Favreau's introduction to the book. The book is full of these contrasts and it is a shame as clean images of these shots can be found in a variety of magazines.
Then there is the complete omission of 'Hulk' which contains some of the most difficult effects shot ever produced by ILM'S at the time. This alone gets one star dropped for this book.
All in all I would recommend people get the book for the many great images of those fantastic movies that it does contain but be prepared to grimace every 3rd or 4th page as you get a grainy, blurred image. This could and should have been so much better and the author could have learnt a thing or two from looking at the previous two ILM books rather that trying to deny their existence as the narrative in this book often hints at.
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The two earlier books from ILM were Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Special Effects in 1987 and Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm in 1996.
This new 360-page hardcover features 43 films from 1995 to 2011. Movies from before 1995 are featured in only a few pages since they were in the earlier books. To give you an idea of how far it goes back, the first movie featured is Casper (1995).
The more recent movies are Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Transformers, Iron Man, and the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and even Rango from 2011.
Each movie has a writeup focusing on the special effects used, and comes with accompanying film stills and photos from behind the scenes. The interesting stories and interviews from the film staff makes for a fascinating read. It's like finding out how magic tricks are done. These guys are living right at the bleeding edge, creating software for making movies when nothing else in the market exists. It's intriguing to read how they overcome challenges that come with every film.
This book is a wonderful flashback at how techniques for movie making have evolved. In Jumanji, The monkeys riding on the police bike still looked rather crude. Fast forward to present time, we now have Avatar which is basically a full length special effects movie.
Highly recommended to movie buffs.
This new 360-page hardcover features 43 films from 1995 to 2011. Movies from before 1995 are featured in only a few pages since they were in the earlier books. To give you an idea of how far it goes back, the first movie featured is Casper (1995).
The more recent movies are Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Transformers, Iron Man, and the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and even Rango from 2011.
Each movie has a writeup focusing on the special effects used, and comes with accompanying film stills and photos from behind the scenes. The interesting stories and interviews from the film staff makes for a fascinating read. It's like finding out how magic tricks are done. These guys are living right at the bleeding edge, creating software for making movies when nothing else in the market exists. It's intriguing to read how they overcome challenges that come with every film.
This book is a wonderful flashback at how techniques for movie making have evolved. In Jumanji, The monkeys riding on the police bike still looked rather crude. Fast forward to present time, we now have Avatar which is basically a full length special effects movie.
Highly recommended to movie buffs.
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The special effects in cinema is still, and will always be, expanding and ILM are still right up there. There are other special effects "houses" out there of course, Digital Domain and Weta to name just two, and the quality generally of today's CGI from most of these special effect companies and others continues to push the digital frontiers. But ILM doesn't sit on its pixals given its longer heritage and this latest offering on the story of ILM brings you up to bang up to date (2011) with the CGI fest that is "Rango". Others on this site will and would have expounded better than I on this book, so all i'll say is if you are a fan of the art of cinematic special effects you'll enjoy this read....and looking at the pictures.
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