star-trekThe new Star Trek movie opens this Friday and stories are coming out about the VFX scenes, about 1000 scenes total.  ILM did the majority of the work (789shots), with the rest picked up by smaller houses like Digital Domain, Svengali, and Lola VFX.  Post Magazine has an interview with ILM About their contributions.

At the peak of production last year, ILM threw virtually its entire staff — 400 artists and technicians — at Star Trek shots. For Russell Earl, the movie’s premiere this month presents something of a space-time warp. The visual effects he oversaw were essentially all done last fall, in time for a Christmas release (which Paramount then bumped to May due to box-office-share considerations). Now Earl, who was Star Trek’s co-VFX supervisor for ILM with Roger Guyett, is stationed in Prague, where he’s on the WW II actioner Red Tails (it has air combat).

via COVER STORY: ‘STAR TREK’ RETURNS | Articles | Post Magazine.

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