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At the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco, legendary special effects house Industrial Light and Magic shares its office space with LucasArts, the game development arm of LucasFilm. Here, concepts of game and filmmaking are closely entwined – the two work together, drawing ideas and technologies from each other as the twin entertainment media converge.
It's a gaming event, for example, that helped kickstart a new R&D project at Ilm – real-time movie-making using motion capture systems. As Mike Sanders, the digital supervisor at Ilm, explains: "On the first Force Unleashed game, LucasArts called us and said they were doing a press junket and wanted to do the Clone Cam thing with everyone on the tour. So I said, that's going to take a while, why don't we do something different? Let's write some code to port...
At the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco, legendary special effects house Industrial Light and Magic shares its office space with LucasArts, the game development arm of LucasFilm. Here, concepts of game and filmmaking are closely entwined – the two work together, drawing ideas and technologies from each other as the twin entertainment media converge.
It's a gaming event, for example, that helped kickstart a new R&D project at Ilm – real-time movie-making using motion capture systems. As Mike Sanders, the digital supervisor at Ilm, explains: "On the first Force Unleashed game, LucasArts called us and said they were doing a press junket and wanted to do the Clone Cam thing with everyone on the tour. So I said, that's going to take a while, why don't we do something different? Let's write some code to port...
- 10/27/2010
- by Keith Stuart
- The Guardian - Film News
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