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unusual facts about Industrial Light & Magic


Stephen L. Price

Stephen L. Price (November 9, 1960 – May 22, 1995) was a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, one of the world's premiere special effects companies.


Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed

The title alluded to the magician's code: the promise by working magicians not to reveal the basis of their tricks, or else risk getting blackballed by fellow magicians.

The show also aired in the UK on ITV4, and in Australia on 7Two with new narration by Grant Denyer.

Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets

The special was produced by Nash Entertainment, the same company that produced Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed.

Gerri Lawlor

Speaking Simlish, Lawlor was the voice of numerous Sims in The Sims, The Sims Livin' Large, The Sims: House Party, The Sims Makin' Magic, The Sims 2, The Sims Life Stories, The Sims: Superstar, and SimCity 4.

James Herbert Brennan

Herbie Brennan's Man, Myth & Magic was published by Yaquinto Publications in 1982; he had originally started developing it as a much smaller RPG called Arena, but the game continued to grow from its Roman has as he developed it.

Kingdom O' Magic

It was designed by Fergus McNeill who became famous during the eighties for games such as Bored of the Rings (influenced by, but not adapted from, the Harvard Lampoon book) and The Boggit.

Max Dennison

Having worked on Revenge of the Sith for Industrial Light & Magic in 2004, he is now based in London and most recently completed work on X-Men: The Last Stand, The Da Vinci Code and Bryan Singer's Superman Returns.

Mr. Magic

In 2002 Magic lent his voice to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, as himself, a DJ on one of the in-game radio stations.

New Media Film Festival

Films submitted to the Festival are reviewed by a panel of judges including Pixar, The Caucus, Industrial Light & Magic Lorne Lanning, Spencer Halpin, and a variety of other Oscar, Grammy, and Sundance winners and nominees.

Peanut Butter Wolf Presents Stones Throw: Ten Years

Producer = Madlib
Peanut Butter Wolf
J Dilla
Cut Chemist
L.A. Carnival
Ira Raibon
Genie Jackson
Koushik
Aloe Blacc
G-Luv
Gary Wilson
Monty Stark
Mr. Magic
Edan

Prehistoric Beast

As for the subsequent documentary Dinosaur!, Phil Tippett, while making Prehistoric Beast, received assistance from ILM stop-motion animators Randy Dutra (who made the dinosaur molds and skins) and Tom St. Amand (who made the inner articulated metallic skeletons of the dinosaurs).

Richard Edlund

On the strength of a couple of short films he was picked by John Dykstra to work as first cameraman at the embryonic Industrial Light & Magic on the production of the first of the Star Wars films for which he shared an Academy Award.


see also

Hickel

Hal Hickel, Academy Award winning visual effects animator for Industrial Light & Magic