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Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm

Mark Cotta Vaz and Patricia Rose Duignan; foreword by Steven Spielberg

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Summary

Mark Cotta Vaz and Patricia Rose Duignan cover ILM’s second decade, from 1986 into the mid-1990s. They follow matte painting, model making and optical compositing as these crafts change with digital systems. The illustrated account also covers the work of animation, creature, stage and pyrotechnic teams, along with commercials and theme park projects. Steven Spielberg writes the foreword.

  • SourceGoogle Books — publisher synopsis and full byline · Synopsis: 1986–mid-1990s; transition of matte painting, models and optical compositing to digital systems; teams, commercials and theme parks; foreword by Steven Spielberg; Authors and ISBN 9780345381521.
  • SourceCiNii Books — original edition record · Bibliographic Information: by Mark Cotta Vaz and Patricia Rose Duignan; Ballantine Books c1996; ISBN 0345381521; LCCN 95034797; 328 pages.
  • SourceLucasfilm — research resource list · For school projects and research: 1996 Del Rey work listed as Into the Digital Age; publisher and library records resolve this apparent title variant, not a separate work.

Why read it Our view

Study how a specialist company moves from established craft methods to new digital tools. The range of teams and projects can help founders ask which skills to retain, which tools to build and how to coordinate a technical change.

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  • George LucasCompany-history subject
    About the company Lucas founded. The foreword is by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm’s resource list calls this Into the Digital Age, but publisher and library metadata establish Into the Digital Realm as the title of this 1996 work.
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