Talk:Industrial Light & Magic

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Contents 1 Name formatting? 2 Pixar history 3 Quotes 4 Oscars 5 Milestones 6 Pixar

[edit] Name formatting?

Is it Industrial Light & Magic or Industrial Light + Magic? Both are used in the article. Consistency would be better. MaxVeers 17:35, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

According to the official website, its either Industrial Light & Magic or ILM

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Both are correct. I've even seen it written with the and, though rarely. The & is more common in text while the + is more common when used in logos and graphics. So I guess the & would be more appropiate in the article (though other things really need more attention.

Even Rhythm and Hues now also uses +.

malducin 14 January 2006

• I hardly ever seen it written as anything other than Industrial Light & Magic, I'll move the article to the apporiatly. The Filmaker 00:48, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pixar history

The group that later became Pixar was a division of Lucasfilm, but separate from ILM. The Pixar group did contribute some visual effects for ILM, of course, including the stained glass man in Sherlock Holmes and the Genesis effect. ILM formed its own computer graphics division, headed by Doug Kay and George Joblove, around the time that Pixar was sold to Steve Jobs, and retaining much of the group's technology, but not the personnel. Details on this history can be found in Michael Rubin's 2005 book DroidMaker.

[edit] Quotes

One quote here - "You can't spell film without ILM" listed as having an "Unknown source"

Removed section. This quote sounds like it could be a company slogan, and I personally feel it is a really neat quote, but without a source it really does not belong here. If a source is found, and it is such that it makes the quote appropriate (i.e. it really is a company slogan, or perhaps something like a quote from Lucas), feel free to put it back. Shador5529 22:42, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oscars

The article says they have won 16, but this PDF on their website says POTC 2 was their 15th:

http://www.ilm.com/pdf/ilm07_oscarwin.pdf

I wonder where the erronious one has come from... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.127.79.8 (talk) 00:02:05, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Milestones

The article on motion control states that the first use was in 2001 and A New Hope is simply the first LARGE SCALE use. Yet neither are sourced. SteveCoppock (talk) 19:43, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pixar

The Pixar error (noted above) should be fixed by someone who is knowledgeable. As it stands it's clearly erroneous because it seems to say there's currently no "computer graphics department" at ILM. Tempshill (talk) 05:31, 9 June 2008 (UTC)