A deep history of Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects studio George Lucas founded for Star Wars, and how ILM transformed cinema through motion control, miniatures, CGI, Jurassic Park,…
A deep history of Blue Sky Studios, from its MAGI and Tron roots to its ray-tracing renderer, Bunny’s Oscar, Ice Age and Scrat, The Peanuts Movie, Nimona, and Disney’s 2021…
A company starts in Silicon Valley in 1980 with a few people, some computers, a lot of ambition, and no obvious way to become a movie studio. It makes broadcast…
A deep history of Pixar, from Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith at Lucasfilm to RenderMan, Toy Story, Disney tensions, the 2006 acquisition, the Braintrust, OpenUSD, and the myth of…
At night, after the client work was done, Tomek Bagiński went back to his computer and kept building a cathedral.
Not a normal cathedral. A living one. A cosmic one.…
Rhythm & Hues was a visual effects company. It made animals. It made logos. It made aircraft, snow, skies, oceans, fur, muscles, daemons, talking pigs, polar bears that sold soda,…
A director in New Zealand wanted to make movies that were too large for New Zealand. He wanted murder fantasies, ghosts, hobbits, cave trolls, armies, giant apes, blue aliens, intelligent…