Industrial Light & Magic

From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference.

Industrial Light & Magic, or ILM, is a visual effects company. Founded and owned by George Lucas, it was set up to provide effects for his movie Star Wars and quickly became a prolific effects house, working on numerous feature films, including doing visual effects sequences for the following Star Trek productions:

• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (some footage reused in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
• TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint" (footage reused throughout the series)
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Star Trek Generations
• Star Trek: First Contact

In 2007, TrekMovie.com reported that ILM had been contracted to provide effects for the upcoming Star Trek feature film. [1]

ILM has provided special visual effects for over 300 films and television series. In addition to the Star Trek films listed above and the six Star Wars films, their motion picture credits include Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Cocoon, Back to the Future and its sequels (starring Christopher Lloyd), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (also starring Christopher Lloyd), Field of Dreams, Ghostbusters II, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Abyss, The Hunt for Red October, Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Ghost, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Jurassic Park and its sequels, Forrest Gump, Twister, Mission: Impossible, Men in Black and its sequel, Titanic, Saving Private Ryan, Galaxy Quest, The Mummy, Pearl Harbor, The Bourne Identity, Minority Report, all of the Harry Potter movies, all three Pirates of the Caribbean films, The Day After Tomorrow, The Bourne Supremacy and the J.J. Abrams-directed Mission: Impossible III. Their current projects include Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Iron Man for Paramount as well as Speed Racer and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for Warner Bros. Pictures.

John Knoll is one of the leading members of ILM. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's visual effects coordinator Judy Elkins worked at ILM as an animator on films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Poltergeist. Other past and present members of ILM who worked on Star Trek include Martin Brenneis, Loren Carpenter, Sean Casey, Ed Catmull, Brian Chin, Bob Diepenbrock, John Duncan, Scott Farrar, John Goodson, Judy Elkins, Mike Fulmer, Steve Gawley, Bill George, Alex Jaeger, Stewart Lew, Jeff Mann, Mark S. Miller, Steve Sanders, and Larry Tan.

In 2005, ILM moved their digital effects departments from Kerner Blvd. in San Rafael, California, to the Presidio in San Francisco. The departments responsible for the physical aspects of ILM's visual effects (models and miniatures, pyrotechnics, etc.) remained in the original San Rafael facility and became their own independent company, Kerner Optical. ILM has a non-exclusive agreement with Kerner Optical which allows the two companies to work together on projects, including 2009's Star Trek. [2]

Contents 1 The Wrath of Khan crew 2 The Search for Spock crew 3 The Voyage Home crew 4 The Undiscovered Country crew 5 Generations crew 5.1 Miniature Crash Sequence Photography Unit 6 First Contact crew 6.1 Motion Control and Pyrotechnics Unit 7 Star Trek (2009) crew 7.1 Unconfirmed crew 8 External links

[edit] The Wrath of Khan crew

Those ILM members who specifically worked on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan are listed below.

[edit] The Search for Spock crew

Those ILM members who specifically worked on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock are listed below.

[edit] The Voyage Home crew

Those ILM members who specifically worked on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home are listed below.

[edit] The Undiscovered Country crew

Those ILM members who specifically worked on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country are listed below.

[edit] Generations crew

Those ILM members who specifically worked on Star Trek Generations are listed below.

[edit] Miniature Crash Sequence Photography Unit

[edit] First Contact crew

Those ILM members who specifically worked on Star Trek: First Contact are listed below.

[edit] Motion Control and Pyrotechnics Unit

According to the Internet Movie Database, Aaron Haye was a modelmaker for ILM on First Contact. This has not been verified, however; if he was involved in the production, he was not credited.

[edit] Star Trek (2009) crew

• Visual Effects Supervisor
  • Roger Guyett
• Visual Effects Artist
  • Rene Garcia
• Animator
  • Jean-Denis Haas
• Character Animator
  • Makoto Koyama
• Digital Artist
  • Todd Vaziri
• Digital Compositor
  • Mathew Krentz

Shari Hanson is working with ILM as Paramount Pictures' Visual Effects Producer. She is not, however, part of the ILM team.

[edit] Unconfirmed crew

• Dan Bornstein - Visual Effects Technical Director
• Beth D'Amato - Digital and Roto Supervisor
• Bradford deCaussin - Texture Painter
• Peter Demarest - Digital Compositor
• Russell Earl - Co-Visual Effects Supervisor
• C. Michael Easton - Animator
• Robb Gardner - Lighting Technical Director
• Thomas Elder-Groebe - Visual Effects Coordinator
• Katherine Farrar - Visual Effects Coordinator
• Dan Feinstein - Digital Compositor
• Antonio Freire - Production Accountant
• Sherry Hitch - Digital Compositor
• Ryan Hopkins - Senior Digital Artist
• Cyrus Jam - Sequence Supervisor
• Katrin Klaiber - Sequence Supervisor
• Martin Allan Kloner - Visual Effects Editor
• François Lambert - Sequence Supervisor
• John M. Levin - Layout Artist
• Gretchen Libby - Visual Effects Executive Producer
• Noll Linsangan - Digital Compositor
• Mark Nettleton - Sequence Supervisor
• Brian Paik - Creature Technical Director
• Jason Porter - Digital Compositor
• Barry Safley - Compositor and Digital Artist
• Gregory Salter - Sequence Supervisor
• Mike Sanders - Digital Supervisor
• Steve Sauers - Creature Technical Director
• Ken Sjogren - Digital Compositor
• Paul Sharpe - Digital Artist
• James Soukup - On-Set Matchmover
• Chad Taylor - Inferno Artist
• Alex Tropiec, Jr. - Inferno Artist

[edit] External links

• ILM Official Website
• ILM Filmography
• Industrial Light & Magic at Wikipedia
• Industrial Light & Magic at the Internet Movie Database