This year marks 35 years of epic special effects and filmmaking from Industrial light and Magic, the brainchild of George Lucas and the Star Wars saga. Wired magazine takes a look through some of their greatest successes over the years, complete with videos of some of their greatest hits.
Hollywood’s penchant for visual wizardry goes back to black-and-white classics like The Thief of Bagdad and Metropolis, but no single f/x house has lent more reality to make-believe than George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic. What started out as a ragtag cluster of artists cobbling together an epic space adventure has matured into a 15-time Oscar winner with some 250 film credits—the most recent being this summer’s Iron Man 2.
