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Jon Berg is known for The Fly (1986), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).
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Aug 18, 2022 · In its infancy, ILM was a place for creating the impossible, where ingenuity was rewarded with results, critical acclaim, and box-office hits that would inspire the next generation of creators. “It is something that could never happen again,” director and visual effects artist Joe Johnston tells StarWars.com, “All these different elements ...
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- ILM was built from the ground up, including the cameras used for Star Wars. “I realized I was going to have to start a company and put together a whole group of people that would just be specifically for making Star Wars,” said George Lucas in 1979.
- The original Star Wars effects crew shared a common movie in their origin story: The 7 Voyage of Sinbad. The 1958 adventure film by Ray Harryhausen featured mind-blowing stop motion animation.
- George Lucas envisioned the rebel fleet as hotrods. The original X-wing, Y-wing, and TIE fighter designs were incredible, but looked clean and manufactured.
- Joe Johnston was inspired by dirty dishes when designing the Millennium Falcon. Johnston was also tasked with redesigning the Falcon when the original design was deemed too similar to another ship on television.
Aug 9, 2022 · As the documentary charts the journey of Hollywood’s most famous purveyors of movie effects from the mid-’70s through to the CG-dominated present day, this joyous, awe-inspiring peek behind the...
Apr 6, 2017 · Sci Fi Central spent some good time with ILM wizard Jon Berg in Orlando. In this first of four segments, he outlines to DJ how he was inside one of the Bith ...
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May 26, 2020 · To celebrate the classic film’s landmark 40th anniversary, StarWars.com presents “Empire at 40,” a special series of interviews, editorial features, and listicles. Seventy matte paintings were created for The Empire Strikes Back by three artists from Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). Two of them, Ralph McQuarrie and Michael Pangrazio, were ...
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For Sci Fi Central Australia, Darryl James interviewed Lucasfilm and ILM model maker & effects artist Jon Berg in Orlando about Creating Cantina & Chess Crea...
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