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34 chapter 1 ■ Setting Up a Composite
Interview: Dorne Huebler, Industrial Light & Magic,
San Francisco
Dorne Huebler graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1980. By the time he
graduated, he was already creating graphics and visual effects for commercials. In 1995,
he served as visual effects supervisor for James and the Giant Peach. Since joining ILM
in 1998, he’s served as a compositor, sequence
supervisor, and compositing supervisor on such
features as Harry Potter and the Chamber
of Secrets, The Chronicles of Riddick, Hulk,
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, and
Iron Man.
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) was
founded 1975 in by George Lucas as a means to
create the special effects for Star Wars. The stu-
dio has since gone on to become a powerhouse
in the visual effects industry, garnering multiple
Academy Awards and a long list of top-grossing
feature films. ILM pioneered many of the com-
puter animation and filmmaking technologies
taken for granted today, including 24 fps digital
video, morphing, and photo-real 3D characters.
(Left) R2-D2 and a storm trooper stand guard over the lobby. (Right) A statue of Eadweard
Muybridge, a pioneer of the photographic study of motion, watches over the ILM facility.
ILM moved to the Presidio in 2005, restoring the buildings of an abandoned army hospital.
(Photos courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic)
Dorne Huebler at his workstation. Note the CRT monitors,
including one made by SGI.
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