e-on software and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), announced that Vue 5 Infinite, e-on software’s natural 3D environment solution is currently being used by ILM for the production of some of the special effects in upcoming movie projects.

Industrial Light & Magic, one of the world’s largest visual effects and computer animation companies, chose Vue because it filled a void in their existing tool set. “E-on products are a great addition to our production tool set and we are planning to expand their use throughout our entire facility. You will probably be seeing a lot of “Vue” in future productions,” said Cliff Plumer, CTO of Lucasfilm.

Some of ILM’s recent credits include: “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith”, “War of the Worlds”, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, and “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”.

ILM is making use of all of Vue’s strengths, from the creation of digital footage and scenery setup, animation and lighting, all the way through the rendering of final images that you will see on the big screen.

“Creating a photo-realistic organic environment digitally used to be a big challenge. With Vue, we now have full flexibility to do such work. When asked to change the lighting or camera angle, all we have to do is re-render with a different setting!” said Susumu Yukuhiro, Digital Matte Artist at ILM. “It only took us a few days to learn the program and we were able to create awesome animation right away (including wind swept trees - which was really difficult to achieve before). With Vue in our toolkit, we can push our work to the next level of organic environments!”