Industrial Light & Magic

Casper appeared on screen for roughly 40 minutes.

So as for the final animation, the four ghost characters reportedly required about 15 months of work by approximately 150 ILM staff members.

The team could only complete around five to eight shots per week.

One particularly difficult effect sequence involved Casper lifting a dress from a trunk and dropping it over Cat's head, requiring a digital character to convincingly manipulate an object while interacting with a live actor.

Maybe I need to be more expansive in that way.

but you never get the sense, as you do with Coppola and Lucas, of like, are you confusing the means and the end? Is ILM meant to be the thing that allows you to make Star Wars, or is Star Wars the thing that allows you to have the money to build all this other stuff? Are you confusing it? And you never get that with Spielberg.

And so that's why when I say even the calculated, those words I'm making the best way possible, there's an instinct thing of like, there's a bunch of people I spoke to who would have been Steven's assistants, whoever it is, 40 years ago, who would be like, I love Steven.

I don't have a single wrong thing to say about Steven.

I met with Brian last weekend to talk about options for funding your new screenplay.

I just moved from ILM to an effects company called Bungie.

They want to move from video games to films, and your movie might be a great option.

Have you released a short film version, mate? And before Aaron could reply, Alexis sent an additional text saying, Sweet Martha talked my ear off about you in New York, and Brian too sang your praises.

So...

Now, I didn't verify this, but I did read that the visual effects were done by ILM.

Oh, well, that makes sense.

So, I mean, that could be why it's actually pretty darn good.

I wanted to say briefly, when you were talking about collaborations, I feel like not enough people talk about the idea that because Spielberg shot Jurassic Park in the fall, late summer of 92, and then post releases June of 1993.

Basically, when Spielberg finishes shooting Jurassic Park in 1982, I think like October of 92, he goes in basically directly to Prague or somewhere in Eastern Europe to film Schindler's List, obviously because ILM and Skywalker Sound did all the post on Jurassic Park.

George Lucas essentially supervised the sound post for Jurassic Park.

I feel like nobody really talks about that.

And so, yeah, that's exactly right.

Everybody used models, including ILM and Star Wars.

Dennis Murin said this was so far beyond his computer-controlled camera, because that was one thing they used as a computer-controlled camera so that they could make everything match.

That was

I can't remember the name of the ship, but a beautiful looking ship from the video game that we see.

and uh and the artist drew the ship and they have to render that drawing you know that's that's an early you know to take the drawing and render that into the computer so then then you can model it in the computer they were doing everything on the fly in this little company and uh yeah yeah But but apparently I don't know what they did after that.

I think ILM still ILM probably just adapted.

I think some of their workers went over to ILM as ILM converted more to the digital environment.

So he's directed a bunch of other Clone Wars.

But the most exciting credit in all of his credits that I found was that he worked for ILM, which is probably how he got these jobs.

And he's credited as the mummy designer in 1999's The Mummy.

Very cool.