“I just stay curious and when I finish a show, I try to look at the work I had done as obsolete,” adds Dennis Muren, a longtime visual effects supervisor, and now consulting creative director at ILM.
And you know, we were all lucky to have been a part of it.”įor every success, there was always a new problem to tackle in the evolution of the medium, and the pioneers at the heart of ILM’s accomplishments never rested on their laurels.
It was just something that came together at that moment in time that could never be repeated again. And there were these people, many of whom hadn’t worked in film before, but they had a specific skill and a talent to do one thing. “It is something that could never happen again,” director and visual effects artist Joe Johnston tells, “All these different elements came together - some of which had to be created on the spot! They didn’t exist, like the motion control. In its infancy, ILM was a place for creating the impossible, where ingenuity was rewarded with results, critical acclaim, and box-office hits that would inspire the next generation of creators. For nearly 50 years, Industrial Light & Magic has been a proving ground for imaginative storytelling, bringing together like-minded individuals from a variety of disciplines to innovate the art of visual effects in filmmaking.
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