Light & Magic ILM documentary series

[Axlotl]

Well, he tried to do so with "Red Tails" (basically the first Hollywood movie with an all Black actor cast...before Black Panther)
All combat scenes were CGI...

The Color Purple would like a word.

 

[joberg]

The Color Purple would like a word.

Touché

 

[AJK001]

Most everyone who worked with George have said he loved making movies, he just hated having to work with actors to do it.

 

[Darth Lars]

BTW. Maybe it's my fever talking but ... does Lorne Peterson of today not look exactly like Pa Peabody from Back to the Future? (played by Will Hare in 1985)

 

[Psab keel]

"This studio used to be greenscreen as far as the eye could see. Old man Lucas had this crazy idea of making digital projection screens..."

 

[The Terminator]

BTW. Maybe it's my fever talking but ... does Lorne Peterson of today not look exactly like Pa Peabody from Back to the Future? (played by Will Hare in 1985)

"Skulle gått till specsavers"
No, definitely not.

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

BTW. Maybe it's my fever talking but ... does Lorne Peterson of today not look exactly like Pa Peabody from Back to the Future? (played by Will Hare in 1985)

Get well soon! At least till CE London next year!

 

[renaissance_man]

Overall I enjoyed this series and Disney is very generous in its behind the scenes documentaries which I am grateful for.
I understand ILM was borne of Star Wars' need for a new style of VFX but the bulk of the Light and Magic was focused on the history of Star Wars, I got to the end of the series and was a bit disappointed that they glossed over a lot of the other films the company worked on. We got a bit about T2 and the Abyss and Willow which was really great but I feel like there is so much more to hear about the work that ILM has done. They teased Avengers Assemble and other films in the promo but in reality there was very little outside of Star Wars that was covered.
A nitpick I know, I hope we get another 6 episodes which goes into more detail on other films and series.
The fact that ILM works on TV shows is something overlooked.
When you look at the company's credits they have done more work on films and TV series other than Star Wars which the documentary didn't even cover.
Overall 7/10 I would still recommend this to anyone who has in interest in behind the scenes of film and TV and the VFX industry.

 

[Mottrex]

I had to scoff at that part. If the incredible effects and innovations were ultimately serving an interesting story, I'd be more inclined to take that statement seriously. I appreciate the work a digital effects artist puts into the modern movies and shows, but they are so commonplace that it's not special in the same way that effects were in the days of analog. They literally had to invent machines to be able to accomplish a shot. Now it's all achievable.

Like I said before, my take away was gratitude to have been born in that small window when special and visual effects were truly special and not super common like they are today. The insane genius behind the origins of ILM will never be replicated. Both with Lucas assembling just the right people, at just the right time, and just the right movie to use those necessary tools to make it.... we will never see another event quite like it.

Back in the 1970's before ILM and Starwars arrived the main staple of effect movies for my age group in the UK were classic Ray Harryhausen movies and Bond movies which you had to wait years for.
What George did others will always be riding on his coat tails until some new tech system allows us to be like an Occulus Rift place you in a movie similar situation like Total Recall which was muted about some time back along with also digitising your face onto a character in a computer game but both seem to have fallen by the way side.

 

[joberg]

I know that we've touched on different tricks and techniques of practical effects needed to achieve the shots that we all loved and admired, either at the time or even now. Is just to acknowledge the fact that a special FX studio (and everything you have to create for it to work/produce those effects) was put together and was operating outside of the studios at the time. Everything else before (and even after) was produced "In House" by the studios (U.K. or U.S.) in majority