Industrial Light and Magic : Creating the Impossible

English

ISBN: 0810998025

EAN: 9780810998025

Category: Photography / Techniques / Cinematography & Videography

Publisher: Abrams

Release Date: 11/24/2011

Synopsis: Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovationis an extensively illustrated oral history of the multiple-Academy-Award-winning visual effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975. Its tale begins with a small team of craftspeople, engineers, and artists who pioneered analog effects that had never before been attempted or realized on the screen for Star Wars. Industrial Light & Magiccontinues their story through the effects facilitys mind-bending work, over the following three decades, on more than three hundred filmsfrom optical printing to the digital and computer-generated-effects era. A behind-the-scenes record of the state-of-the-art innovations that have driven moviemaking magic, the book features candid stories from the filmmakers, artists, and technicians who were there, breaking barriers and changing the history of cinema with their early work on cultural landmarks, such as the Star Warssaga, the Indiana Jonesseries, E.T., Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park. Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovationis the first and only book to focus on the companys work during the last sixteen years, detailing its creative and technological innovations on dozens of blockbuster films. Through firsthand accounts of the problem solving that has pushed the art form of visual effects to its limits and created visual experiences that could only have been dreamed of in the past, the book features extensive commentary by George Lucas, Dennis Muren, John Knoll, Scott Farrar, Roger Guyett, Ben Snow, Rob Coleman, Lorne Peterson, and many others. Their accounts are supplemented by more than 400 images from many of ILMs breakthrough movies, such as the Pirates of the Caribbeantrilogy, Transformers, Iron Man, and the Star WarsPrequel Trilogy, offering a crash course on the most groundbreaking visual effects created today.

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Industrial Light and Magic : Creating the Impossible

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.25 inches

Width: 11.25 inches

Length: 11.75 inches

Weight: 79.05 oz

Pages: 360