{"id":604040,"date":"2026-09-02T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604040\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:00:08","slug":"the-story-of-industrial-light-magic-the-company-that-changed-visual-effects-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604040\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Industrial Light &#038; Magic \u2014 the Company That Changed Visual Effects Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than half a century, ILM \u2014 now headquartered in San Francisco, California, with studios in five countries \u2014 continues to raise the bar for visual effects. Winner of 17 BAFTA Awards, 16 Academy Awards\u00ae, and eight Emmy\u00ae Awards (among other accolades), ILM gradually evolved beyond practical visual effects to become an artistic and technical leader in the fields of feature animation, immersive entertainment, virtual production, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>In the video above, ILM leadership \u2014 including Lewin; John Knoll, Executive Creative Director; and Lucasfilm\u2019s Doug Chiang, SVP, Executive Design Director \u2014 share the company\u2019s story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than half a century, ILM \u2014 now headquartered in San Francisco, California, with studios in five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-604040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}