Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Miracle Exploring Opening New Facility in Vancouver

Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Miracle is exploring opening a project-based facility in Vancouver sometime next spring.our editor recommendsLucasfilm, The new sony Pictures Imageworks Launch VFX DevelopmentPixar's La Luna, Sony's Arthur Christmas Preview: Siggraph Animation Festival ILM, located in Bay Area, rejected to comment because particulars are not completed, but word from the new ILM outpost was distributing now in the CG confab Siggraph, happening in Vancouver, wherefavorable tax incentives have switched the town into among the most popular locations for that visual effects and animation community. Should ILM mind to Vancouver, it will likely be the most recent inside a string of leading firms that recently have setup shop within the production hub -- including Digital Domain, Pixar Animation Galleries, MPC and The new sony Picture Imageworks. Additionally to its Bay Area headquarters, ILM also works from Lucasfilm Singapore, which opened up in 2005 and it is already drained of space. Lucasfilm Singapore intends to transfer to a brand new building -- that is presently being built -- by 2013. ILM's recent work includes Rango, in addition to VFX focus on Super 8, Transformers: Dark from the Moon and Pirates from the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Approaching working includes the visual effects on Red-colored Tails, Jason Bourne: Ghost Protocol, Battleship and also the Avengers. In related news now at Siggraph, Lucasfilm and Imageworks launched Alembic, a wide open source system targeted at helping VFX companies easily store and share complex animated moments across facilities, no matter what software programs are getting used. Related Subjects Worldwide Super 8 Pirates from the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Pixar Transformers: Dark from the Moon Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol