Mark Rober’s epic birthday celebration for a young cancer survivor

Mark Rober’s science YouTube channel is pure awesome, but this time he REALLY knocks it out of the park to give a surprise birthday party to a young cancer survivor. What a legend.

https://youtu.be/BHiWygziyso

TechCrunch: "How ‘The Mandalorian’ and ILM invisibly reinvented film and TV production"

Another quick post to share one my of favourite articles about StageCraft that went out last week. TechCrunch does a fabulous breakdown on what tech we made, how it works, and what the benefits are to the Film and TV industries.

Super solid article here and worth the quick read!
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/how-the-mandalorian-and-ilm-invisibly-reinvented-film-and-tv-production/

The awesome Ian Failes also posted a great summary article as well, with a really fun headine:
"You are going to flip when you see this video of how 'The Mandalorian' was made" :)
https://beforesandafters.com/2020/02/21/you-are-going-to-flip-when-you-see-this-video-of-how-the-mandalorian-was-made/

The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian, Season One

Guess what?? The Mandalorian was [mostly] filmed indoors... there is NO on-location work done for this show. *mind-blowing sounds ensue*

This is the crazy new way of making movies and TV that I've been working on here at ILM as part of the StageCraft Virtual Production Engineering team for the past 5 years!! The talent and inventiveness and sheer badassery of everyone who touched this project is yet another reason why working at ILM rocks so much.

Check it out!!!!!!