Industrial Light & Magic
http://www.ilm.com/
A LucasFilm Ltd Company.
The Lucas companies include Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, LucasArts, Lucasfilm Animation, Skywalker Sound, Lucas Licensing and Lucas Online. It’s headquarters is in San Francisco’s historic Presidio National Park, with other business locations in nearby Marin County as well as in Singapore.
This documentary is about the dying art of model making. Focusing on the personal stories of the model makers whose work shaped and enhanced the impact of feature films and gave it a breathtaking scale. Their practical hands on art is now slowly dying out, giving way to computer generated imagery.
The model makers share their [...]
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1977 is a year that changed much for both the film industry… and fans of science fiction. It was the year Star Wars came out. I myself viewed that film nearly everyday that summer…. a total of 99 times in all. My friends and I would stay all day… watching it over and over [...]
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KIT ALERT!!
Presents
1:24 (Studio Scale) X-Wing Kit
$325 U.S.
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**Made to Order**
Years ago, after Industrial Light and Magic moved from it’s Southern California location, they left behind boxes that were to be gone through. Famed artist John Eaves found in one of those boxes the pieces of one of the actual screen used PYRO X-Wing [...]
After the immense beating she took, and the amazing loss of life her crew suffered, the Enterprise manages to limp home in victory. As she enters Space Dock, in front of her is the next evolution of modern technology… The Excelsior Class Star Ship of the same name. Dwarfing the Enterprise by nearly half, her [...]
Just like the original plan for ILM to build the X-Wings from Star Wars as BLUE Squadron rather than the RED they turned into, professional modeler Kenny Alasandro built Blue 5 from the amazing MSLZ22 kit! This piece is absolutely beautiful and I can now see why ILM chose to go with the RED due [...]
As they race down the Death Star Trench at unbelievable speeds that only the best pilots would be able to handle, especially while being pursued closely by the Dark Lord himself, Biggs Darklighter suddenly feels the pressure as Wedge has to pull out of the Trench from behind him. Now the only object that stands [...]
Getting used to this T-65 X-wing was more difficult than Luke thought it would be…. but then…. the fighter assigned to him was an old rust bucket that had seen a lot of action. Since this was his first flight with Red Squadron, and they were on their way to the fight of a lifetime, [...]
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Known for his various film industry works, master artist (and ILM’er) Jeremy Cook shows some of his works in Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith. The first of these showing Alderaan was done with the assist of another artist named Yannick Dusseault. These CG Environments are crucial to all films today and [...]
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Photos taken while the piece was on display, Cesar Toro took some great angles of this studio model so that everyone may re-produce it exact if they wish!
CLICK HERE to see some photos of this same models as taken by Industrial, Light and Magic (ILM).
Thank you Cesar Toro for joining the ranks of modelers [...]
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With the new kit being released from Sovereign Replicas that was mastered by Neil Ellis, I thought this a good time to show these reference photos…
These were recently uploaded to me by a fan of this site. Though he wishes to remain anonymous, I thank he, and whomever took these great photos for their [...]
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From our resident, anonymous contributor comes this FULL resolution publicity photo of the AVENGER taken for Industrial Light and Magic. I have seen this photo before, but not in such clarity, size and detail! It’s FANTASTIC!
Thank you to DTSSYST for providing this wonderful material for all to see! It is people like you that [...]
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Sent to us to show here by an anonymous provider (dtssyst), here is a fantastic scene photo of the X-wing taking off from the Rebel Base on the 4th Moon of Yavin in Star Wars – A New Hope!
I wish to thank dtssyst for sharing this with everyone! It is people like he that [...]
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Sent to us to show here by an anonymous provider (dtssyst), here is a fantastic behind the scenes shot of the FULL sized Shuttle Tydirium used in Star Wars – Return of the Jedi!
I wish to thank dtssyst for sharing this with everyone! It is people like he that will make creativity more open [...]
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When Star Wars became such a success, and the opening of the film talked about so much, ILM and George Lucas decided to take the menacing Star Destroyer to a new level with AVENGER in the sequel The Empire Strikes Back! Here are some great photos gathered by different people from around the internet. [...]
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This is the model that changed everything for me…. and most likely the way special effects were done from them on. In 1977’s Star Wars, it crawled overhead (taking forever with it’s mass) chasing after a much smaller ship. Little did we all know back then that the model of this famed scene was [...]
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Here are some photos taken by an yet to be identified person of the T-16 Skyhopper model that Luke plays with while cleaning C3PO and R2-D2 in Star Wars – A New Hope.
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Here are a few shots taken by a currently unidentified photographer of the Landspeeder FULL sized prop from the Star Wars Expo Tour.
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Photos taken by a yet to be identified person at one of the Star Wars Exhibitions, I found these to be quite good of the Imperial TIE Fighter Studio Model. Nice and close for details!
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Photos taken by a yet to be identified person at one of the Star Wars Exhibitions, I found these to be quite good of the Escape Pod Studio Model.
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