“Industial Light + Magic: Research and Development 2001” by Industrial Light & Magic

Conference:

• SIGGRAPH 2001
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Title:

Industial Light + Magic: Research and Development 2001

Length:

2:58

Director(s):

• Colum Slevin
• Brent Bowers

Company / Institution / Agency:

• Industrial Light & Magic

Description:

This presentation illustrates the ILM Digital Technology Group’s latest groundbreaking developments. The in-house tools were used by ILM’s many digital artists in the four major summer releases of 2001: “Pearl Harbor,” “The Mummy Returns,” “Al,” and “Jurassic Park III.” The tools include: rigid body dynamics for plane crashes and advanced smoke simulation (“Pearl Harbor”); advancements in motion capture technology (“The Mummy Returns,” “Pearl Harbor”); new advances in flesh simulation and creature dynamics (“Jurassic Park III”); and virtual set technology developed for real-time, on-set visualization (“AI”).

Additional Contributors:

Produced and edited by: COLUM SLEVIN, BRENT BOWERS, Industrial Light + Magic

R&D Department: JOHN ANDERSON, DAVID BENSON, ROD BOGART, DAVID BULLOCK, BRICE CRISWELL, JOEL DAVIS, TIM FORTENBERRY, JOHN HORN, JIM HOURIHAN, PHILIP HUBBARD, ZORAN KACIC-ALESIC, FLORIAN KAINZ, SEBASTIAN MARINO, MARCUS NORDENSTAM, TONY PELLE, PHILIP PETERSON, CARY PHILLIPS, NICOLAS POPRAVKA, VISHWA RANJAN, ARI RAPKIN, ERIC SCHAFER, STEVE SULLIVAN, CORINA WANG, JEFFREY YOST

A very special thank you to all the ILM digital artists and the ILM visual effects production team for their work on: “Pearl Harbor,” “The Mummy Returns,” “Al,” and ‘Jurassic Park Ill.”

Motion capture department: SETH ROSENTHAL, MICHAEL SANDERS, DOUG GRIFFIN, ANN MCCOLGAN

Systems R&D department: TOM D1LLIGAN, ANDY HENDRICKSON

Music: GEORGE SAKELLARIOU

Also for their great help and support: CLIFF PLUMER, YVES METRAUX, VICKI DOBBS BECK, KEVIN BARNHILL, ALAN ROSENFELD, JOSH PINES, AND CHRISTI CAROTA