Tag: ILM
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The battle of the century
Matt Patches from Thrillist had me collaborate on an incredible oral history of the Battle of NY in The Avengers. Check it out.
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The virtual production side of Ready Player One
A look at the work with ILM and Digital Domain, at Cartoon Brew.
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ILM’s Scott Farrar on those A Quiet Place creatures
…and how they had to be re-designed with only 2 months to go! Read the article at Cartoon Brew.
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The OASIS has you
Check out the latest 3D Artist magazine for my behind the scenes look at Ready Player One and the work of ILM and Digital Domain.
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Willow is morfing is Willow
There are actually sooo many great effects shots in Willow, but for me it was ILM’s use of ‘morfing’ that made that project so memorable. It’s now 30 years old, and here’s the VFX Voice piece I was able to do on the film.
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New mocap video of Andy Serkis as Snoke
Most vfxblog readers have probably already seen ILM’s fantastic Snoke visual effects breakdown here, but Lucasfilm has also just released a clip from the upcoming Last Jedi Blu-ray/DVD that features an unaltered Andy Serkis performing Snoke in his motion capture suit. Back in January, I wrote a piece for Cartoon Brew on how ILM transformed…
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Inside Kong: Skull Island’s final battle
There are a number of fierce fight scenes in Kong: Skull Island – one of the most intense is the final battle between Kong and a giant Skullcrawler. ILM handled the complex sequence, which included not only extensive character animation, but also a photoreal jungle and water environment and plenty of effects simulations. Academy Award…
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The making of The Last Jedi’s crystal foxes
Towards the end of The Last Jedi, we meet on Crait a number of Vulptex creatures, fox-like animals with crystalline bristles. Although a detailed animatronic was made for the production, the Vulptices were ultimately crafted in CG by ILM. Academy Award nominee Ben Morris from ILM was the overall visual effects supervisor on The Last…
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How Snoke evolved in The Last Jedi
For Cartoon Brew, I sat down with ILM London to discuss Snoke, and how a bunch of changes were made during and after shooting to make the character more menacing.
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Miniaturisation secrets: Eric Brevig on ‘The Indian in the Cupboard’
Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, soon in theatres, marks the latest in a rich history of films that have dealt with miniaturisation – that is, showing shrunken-down characters in a real-sized world. Films such as Fantastic Voyage, Inner Space, Willow, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Hook, The Indian in the Cupboard and Ant-Man are all ones that have…
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