The lives that George Lucas has touched is astonishing. I remember my school bus driver taking some of us to see Star Wars, on opening day in 1977. I was completely blown away. I was lucky enough, when I grew up, to have eventially worked for a division of Lucasfilm for 8 years. It really was a breathtaking and wonderful experience. ILM and all of the other divisions have kept people entertained for decades... here's to the future of storytelling, imagination and technology. Cheers and thank you George, you are a kind and generous man.

59 minutes of pure inspiration and history combined! thankyou George Lucas!

This is so true 50:45 "When you see a bad CGI is because poor planning on behalf of the filmmaker..." - Jon Favreau.

George Lucas.....Without your wits and mastery, not all the magic of cinema in film history would have been possible. Thanks for everything.

Yet another reason why I like Episodes 1, 2 and 3. So many talented artists creating wonder. Thank you ILM for so many years of magic!!!!!

" We'd paint ourselves into a corner, and then invent our way out of it " WOW....that statement alone tells the whole story of what ILM went through.

Dear George Lucas... thank you.

The fact that ILM is part of making every sci-fi movies, that I love, work make me so proud of them. I love ILM. 😊

Robin Williams' Yoda impression at 38:39!!! Wow, what a man

Putting the "ILM" in FILM for 35 years.

Autodesk 3DS MAX was developed by ILM for this. Absolutely amazing video!! Thanks for sharing

Thanx a million for sharing this doco, ILM no doubt will always be the Leaders & Pioneers in special effects. Thanx Mr Lucas & the team @ ILM.. job well done.

This is absolutely amazing and so interesting! I didn't think I'd watch the whole thing, but it kept my attention the entire time. I love stuff like this, so I'm glad I watched it. PS - Thank you Film Riot for sending me here

Awesome! I love how the tradition SFX and ground breaking VFX live side by side at ILM.

Like the characters in the movie _Jurassic Park,_ when I saw the dinosaurs there in front of me, MY jaw hit the floor, too. That was truly a watershed moment and still holds up extremely well even to this day.

Wow what brilliant people and creative geniuses there are. Thank you ILM and George Lucas and the team❤

I got my start in puppet animation before Star Wars came out and I can fully appreciate the evolution of special effects after Star Wars appeared. This is a pretty good and thoughtful documentary about how the effects industry has evolved. Thank you for posting this.

Mi top 20 personal de los mejores efectos de ILM. 1. La Trilogia Original de Star Wars: Bueno, sobra decir que esta trilogía ademas de ser una excelente obra de arte de ciencia ficción, innovo en el cine, tiene grandes efectos practicos y grandes escenas que han sido inspiración para muchos, incluyendome. 2. La Trilogía de Volver al Futuro: Las tres películas tienen un excelente manejo de efectos practicos, el DeLorean es mas que mítico como la patineta voladora y el tren, y esas recreaciones de los 1955, 1895 y los 2015 alternativos, son espectaculares en todo aspecto. 3. Jurassic Park: La primera más que nada, innovo en la digitalización de los dinosaurios, hicieron un gran paso en la industria y con tantas escenas míticas para el recuerdo, desde el braquiosaurio ante Grant y Sattler hasta el T-Rex gritando la hicieron una obra de arte con todo y animatronicos. 4. Terminator 2: El día del juicio. Aparte del mitico T-1000 y esas perronas escenas donde se mimetiza o regenera, los efectos practicos son mas que alucinantes, desde la persecución en auto, la pesadilla de Sarah Connor o esa mitica escena inicial con la pelea de Skynet en el futuro. 5. La Trilogía de Indiana Jones: Las películas de Indy siempre seran recordadas por esos miticos stunts y efectos prácticos, desde la desintegración del nazi, las miniaturas de las minas y la del Santo Grial son míticas para el mejor arqueológo del mundo. 6. Quien Engaño a Roger Rabbit: Esa amalgama del mundo real y las caricaturas me sigue pareciendo espectacular, así como el hecho de que en realidad, movieron cosas para emular que actuaban como en la escena del piano del Pato Lucas y Donald. 7. E.T El Extraterrestre: Las miniaturas y E.T. son más que impresionantes. El propio E.T. se me hace un personaje muy bien creado, siendo para mí el mejor animatronico hecho en el cine, por sus expresiones y su manera de actuar. 8. Salvando al Soldado Ryan: No solo esas escenas del Día D son míticas y de proporciones bíblicas, sino esas escenas de pelea, de caos y de explosiones son míticas, mostrando la crueldad de la guerra. 9. La trilogía de Piratas del Caribe: Davy Jones y la tripulación del Holandés Errante, Barbosa y la tripulación de los piratas zombificados a la luz de la luna y la mitica pelea final en medio del tornado marino, es una santa joya de las historias de piratas folcloricas. 10. Rango: Hasta ahora la única película animada enteramente del estudio, y para mí el motion capture como estilo de animación fue de las peores ideas del hombre, pero Rango no es el caso, me encantan esos animales bien hechos en este gran western animado. 11. Star Wars Episodio III: La Venganza de los Sith: La mejor precuela también ha sido la que mejor ha envejecido de su trilogía, no solo por la creacion del CGI sino tambien por su abrumador paso adelante con una mejora aun mas gigantesca. 12. Iron Man: La primer pelicula de Iron Man me dejo fascinado con esas armaduras que fueron mas que un deleite para mi yo de 6 años. Cada detalle en las armaduras es espectacular. 13.

Amazing story. Thank you Mr. Lucas!

True inspiration and history of CG that makes me proud to be a 3D artist.

Man! they break through the wall of limits again and again. Much respect to ILM. Thanks for sharing.

George Lucas gets a lot of "hate" for the prequels, but his contribution to special effects is undeniable. I know people think George was not responsible for the success of his own films. They say the original Star Wars was saved in editing. This may be true, but when you look at behind the scenes of all his films, George is always right there with the editors, and his biggest achievement is pioneering the effects that changed filmmaking forever.

32:55 John Knoll, Everyone bow before him.. His brother Thomas and he co-creating Photoshop..

Its good that now were starting to realize that practical and digital BOTH should be used.

OK...who in their right mind would dislike this!?

I remember seeing Jurassic Park for the first time and my jaw hit the floor I could not believe it. I was confused as to how it was done,.... amazing. Kids growing up now have no idea and they are so lucky.

Que gran talento y una profunda admiración por estos magos de ideas.

'we had tom cruise narrate the documentary.....we spared no expense'

The shot of the death star coming from behind a moon was done by an analog video synthesizer the size of a room. Overlooked piece of 1970 technology that worked in reel time.

What a legacy for george lucas, every aspect of the film industry he picked up and regenerated, sound, visual, techinical, that man and his companies have done more for cinema than the entire history of cinema before

I've been to Lucas films in SF it was the best gift ever. Thanks Henry

Hats off to these peeps for all the great experiences.

wow.....a whole world of imagination, where any and everything is possible. ILM......WOW.

The guys at Corridor channel will love this!

That was beautiful. Thanks for sharing this video with us man.

Fantastic!!! Love this world of vfx!

Robin Williams as Yoda

Don't forget their latest work on Pacific Rim, thanks ILM.

Excellent, a superb documentary ,I enjoyed watching that.

Amazing! absolute amazing! Belisimo...

Grande ILM ! Eccezionale.Fantastica !

One of my high school classmates, and a close friend, Jeff Light, was supervisor of motion capture at ILM during the first two of the prequels. He was bright and dynamic. He could act, sing, dance, write, direct, paint backdrops, record and play sound effects--round that time, whilst watching an episode of Star Trek (TOS), I had managed to capture on a tape recorder a few seconds of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) firing his phaser pistol; I shared it with Jeff, and he incorporated it into a segment of our senior skits, during which the world's best hyperbolist in all of human history played Captain Quirk--a true Renaissance man of the first order Jeff was! His only character flaw was that he kept pestering me to tell him my astoundingly brilliant puns . . . . I long have wished he could find two colleagues, one named Jeff Industrial, and the other Jeff Magic, and they would form their own SFX/CGI production company.

I love this! Hope to reach this level of amazing one day 🍿

People love talking about how great Star wars looks but as a 90s kid I was always far more impressed with Jurassic Park, Jumanji, Casper, and Terminator 2. Never knew they were worked in by ILM. Likely since directors got too much credit back then. I wouldn't be surprised if ILM also helped make other favorites of mine like Page Master or Total Recall.

Thankyou. Love the documentary. :)

38:08 Omg I was hearing the video and I thought Liam was talking, damn Robin is so good

Geeezasss! A whole documentary should be done on George's accounting department!!!!

they have worked on so many films i like and some films i dont like, but in all of them the work has been extraordinarily and visually stunning

Desde que vi las guerras de las galaxias de niño, esto era lo que más me gustaba, como hacían los efectos especiales de las películas de ficción.

People who were not around during the 70s just really have no idea how MIND BLOWING the original Star Wars was. It was truly a perfect storm of elements all coming together: Story, characters, robots, visual effects by ILM that had never been seen before, other-worldly sound effects from Ben Burtt and, the coup de gras: John Williams' INCREDIBLE musical score. Just incredible.

George Lucas is like the "Beethoven" of cinema and special effects.

I inspiring I can truly say the momentum of George all these amazing artists and once an artist myself. I have to shout this; "ohh no they've gotten poor Liam!" (In upmost respect

One Word…. EPIC !!! ;)

ILM is my favorite Visual Effects Company, aside from Digital Domain.

Thx FilmRiot for sending me here :D

film riot sent me

That was so much fun to watch.

ILM made the lens flares in JJ Ambrams star trek movies.... THX ILM... :D

Thank you for this!👍🏽

This is awesome!! Thanks for the share :)

Beautiful. Artistic freedom

Biggest take-a-way from this documentary.....is the pultry 15 awards....300 films and ONLY 15 awards? ILM should have way more than that number.

Wow that awesome design effects

I love you ILM

seems like a great and productive working atmosphere there.

Gracias!

Enjoyed that. Thanks

WOW!! Can't say anything more!

Love this!

thanks for posting, doood

"EXCELLENT!

Apparently the company also produced the CG animation for the now defunct simulator ride at EPCOT known as Body Wars in the late 1980s and the animation was groundbreaking for the time due to the amount of high detail in the animation that was something most other CG companies couldn’t really produce at the time until a few years later! :)

I love Industrial Light & Magic's effects especially in Jurassic Park and Transformers.

Film riot represent

From an artist point of veiw i am enlighten by these master pieces

Really interesting! Great video

Thank you Tom!

The great fast by was great also!!

Amazing 👍

Film riot great suggestion !!!

Terminator 2 is legendary for it's effects, it gave us every advance in digital effects we have today. Andy serkis and his motion capture work owe everything to the t1000, the founding character for all motion capture and all cgi in general used today.

Thanks for this video :D

George’s impact was revolutionary but I can’t help but feel, as he was realising the potential of CGI to speed up SFX shots he got a bit drunk with power... There’s things in the original trilogy that look far better than the prequels. I love the way AT-ATs move in a clunky puppet like fashion, I love the sense of depth of field on the space craft (Millenium falcon, Tie fighters, X-Wings etc) and also the fact that characters like Yoda expressions look natural, like a wrinkly old alien you’d expect! I think the thing lacking from modern film making is the discretion to work out what will look best as practical effects vs CGI and when to cleverly transition between the two. I think for scenery, compositing, shot enhancement and peripheral imagery CGI is great. For characters and movement I don’t believe you can beat practical effects... Mad Max fury road or the original Matrix film are great examples of balancing CGI for the peripheral with the upclose using practical effects. Also Steven Spielberg’s transitions between animatronics and CGI for the T-Rex are near flawless in the original Jurassic Park - and a perfect example of exercising this discretion. There are a few distant shots of the Brontesaurus in Jurassic Park that look a little plasticy but still great for its time. CG characters too often fall into the uncanny valley (ie. Yoda, agent Smith in Matrix reloaded or Tarkin in Rogue one) taking you out of the moment- the way they move isn’t natural, they’re weightless and the intricacies of face expressions and material don’t translate well.

amazing !!

omg this is just outstanding :D

ILM is the Godfather of VFX's

Thank you for creating my childhood

GEORGE LUCAS CREATED "ILM"... AND ALMOST EVERYTHING ELSE !!!

13:11 Is it just me or does the "FIRST EVER VISUAL EFFECTS SHOT MADE IN A COMPUTER FOR A MOTION PICTURE" keep changing? I could swear that there are at least four other films that claim this fame.

I'm mesmerized watching this. Had forgotten the Young Sherlock Holmes shot. Jurassic Park was amazing. Then when you get to the Star Wars prequels, unfortunately I just think "well you can't get them all right."

I think besides movies they had a major influence of video game tech and computing power of PCs.

Your guys ROCK !!! :)

good stuff

The tsunami that blasts into the boardwalk of Atlantic City in the alternate ending of Snake Eyes was truly awesome.

Great!....

George Lucas is a genius. He gets way to much hate.

muy bueno men

Awesome stuff 👍

Phenomenal

Jon Favreau, hopefully the next LucasArts head 48:55