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...Dennis Muren, senior visual-effects supervisor at ILM, has become a familiar figure on Oscar night, both because this was his seventh Academy Award and because he is a towering gent with lank white hair and a serene face. That picture -- of a modern Merlin holding a gold totem -- is appropriate, for Muren, 45, is a wizard in the movie craft of computer graphics. In the bland ILM barracks in San Rafael, Calif., he and his merry alchemists wave a little wand over their Silicon Graphics VGX 340 terminals, and out comes the magic...
...traditional special-effects experts, Muren and his ILM-makers brought to life some of the most famous icons in movie history, from Darth Vader to E.T. Now he is leading a revolution in moviemaking. ILM has tamed the elements: fire and water are notoriously tough to animate, but the company managed the first convincingly in Backdraft and the second with the slinky pseudopod in The Abyss. An ILM team led by Steve Williams animated -- brought to life, if you will -- the T-1000 creature in T2, which could transform itself from, say, linoleum into a lethal humanoid weapon. "Movie effects...
...shape of anything it touches, is a state-of- the-art killing machine sent from the future to do battle with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But to the special-effects wizards at Industrial Light & Magic, the T-1000 is a technological marvel that represents, in the words of coordinator Dennis Muren, "the beginning of a new period of filmmaking." The San Rafael, Calif., firm, which director George Lucas founded in 1975 to design the special effects for his Star Wars, has crafted dazzling sequences for dozens of movies, including current releases like Backdraft, The Rocketeer and Hudson Hawk. But its work...