Re: Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation

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Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation

An illustrated oral history of the award-winning visual effects company...

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Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation is 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 for Star Wars that had never before been attempted or realized on the screen. Industrial Light & Magic continues their story through the effects facility's work over the following three decades on more than three hundred films - from 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 breaking barriers and changing the history of cinema with their early work on cultural landmarks, such as the Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones series, E.T., Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Jurassic Park.

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In addition, Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation is the first and only book to focus on the company's 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 artform 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 ILM’s breakthrough movies, such as the Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers films, Iron Man, and the Star Wars prequel trilogy, offering a crash course on the most groundbreaking visual effects created today.

Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation is available now priced at $50.00.

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