May 15, 2008
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ILM's Contribution to 'Speed Racer' Clarified
Regarding Tony Rutherford's review of Speed Racer posted [May 13 http://www.huntingtonnews.net/ columns/080513-rutherford-columnsspeedracermovie.html], it seems that Mr. Rutherford is under the impression that Industrial Light & Magic was the primary visual effects house on the film -- which couldn't be further from the truth.
ILM was called in late in the post production schedule to work on a single sequence which totaled roughly 38 shots, or 4-minutes of screen time. Another company, Digital Domain, was the primary vendor for the effects work contributing nearly 2-hours of the work that appears in the film.
We certainly would not your readers to think we were taking credit for the work of another company and to that end, I hope Mr. Rutherford's review will be corrected as soon as possible.
If you'd like to see our work look no further than Marvel's new film Iron Man for which Industrial Light & Magic was the primary visual effects house on.
Thank you,
Greg Grusby
Technical Publicist, INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC
San Francisco CA 94129
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ILM's Contribution to 'Speed Racer' Clarified
Regarding Tony Rutherford's review of Speed Racer posted [May 13 http://www.huntingtonnews.net/ columns/080513-rutherford-columnsspeedracermovie.html], it seems that Mr. Rutherford is under the impression that Industrial Light & Magic was the primary visual effects house on the film -- which couldn't be further from the truth.
ILM was called in late in the post production schedule to work on a single sequence which totaled roughly 38 shots, or 4-minutes of screen time. Another company, Digital Domain, was the primary vendor for the effects work contributing nearly 2-hours of the work that appears in the film.
We certainly would not your readers to think we were taking credit for the work of another company and to that end, I hope Mr. Rutherford's review will be corrected as soon as possible.
If you'd like to see our work look no further than Marvel's new film Iron Man for which Industrial Light & Magic was the primary visual effects house on.
Thank you,
Greg Grusby
Technical Publicist, INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC
San Francisco CA 94129
E-mail HNN Yahoo Google
Make HNN Your Homepage (IE Users Only)
