Interview

Special/Visual Effects

Industrial Light & Magic’s Cody Gramstad on Painting Lucy’s World

There have been plenty of spectacular special effects to feast on this summer, which has really been the case every summer since the blockbuster was invented. Edge of Tomorrow offered Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt on a time-looped platter for voracious aliens, while Guardians of the Galaxy’s glorious, color-soaked space epic includes the spectacle of a gun-toting ...

By  |  August 12, 2014

Interview

Special/Visual Effects

How Industrial Light & Magic Makes Transformers 4: Age of Extinction Shine

Michael Bay’s Transformers 4: Age of Extinction is the most technologically ambitious film in the franchise. Working again with Industrial Light and Magic, Age of Extinction showcases astonishingly fluid, realistic robotic shape-shifting—somehow they’ve managed to make robots transforming into vehicles and back again into a kind of visual poetry. Age of Extinction, which will be released ...

By  |  June 25, 2014