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Episode 897 - Light & Magic - Season 2, Episode 3 “There’s No Going Back”
June 09, 2025 · 33 min

Industrial Light & Magic create lava for Mustafar, undead pirates for Pirates of the Caribbean, and a digital car escape from aliens in the last episode of Light & Magic.

 

In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss:

The legacy of George Lucas as discussed by many of the visual effects artists at Industrial Light & Magic, The influence of Ray Harryhausen on ILM, How the lava was created for Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith, The creation and use of digital doubles for stunts in Revenge of the Sith, The work done on Pirates of the Caribbean, How Davy Jones was created for Dead Man’s Chest, The creation of Rango and how the ILM artists became storytellers, and more.

For more discussion of Light & Magic, check out episode 894.

 

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