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Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Ian Failes discuss the visual effects in this summer’s Marvel Studios’ blockbuster film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Click on the images below to listen online or subscribe for free in iTunes.
Influential and controversial filmmaker John Milius worked on prominent films such as Apocalypse Now and Jaws before being ostracized by Hollywood. The documentary Milius is now available for streaming via Netflix. Click on the image below to watch!
In this episode Mike Seymour, TyRuben Ellingson and Matt Wallin go all Old Testament to talk ILM VFX and Darren Aronofsky's epic, Noah. Click on the images below to listen online or subscribe for free in iTunes.
I first saw The Empire Strikes Back in the theater in 1980 at the age of ten. As an avid fan I collected everything I could on the movie. One of the best books was "The Empire Strikes Back Sketchbook". There were a number of pages dedicated to the design sketches of Boba Fett's ship, Slave 1. In the book, It stated that the design idea came from a street lamp near Industrial Light & Magic, which was located in San Rafael at that time.
Years later, myself now employed at ILM, I remember walking to lunch one day and looking for those street lamps to no avail. I figured the city had most likely upgraded their municipal lighting scheme.
Then just a few weeks ago I was walking down the street from my home in Richmond, Virginia where I now reside. And low and behold, a single street lamp that looked oddly familiar. Its interesting to finally see what I imagine is the same type that inspired the original design idea.
I love the thought of utilizing/tweaking the design of everyday objects to create believable and seemingly original designs for things like spacecraft, robots, etc.
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