Conversations with Cliff Plumer Part II: ILM's Real Yoda?. talking with cliff plumer part ii. Last week we presented the first part of Barry Gerber's interview with Cliff Plumer, the Chief Technology Officer of Lucasfilm and ILM. Our conversation this week...

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We wanted to have ILM and LucasArts under the same roof, and to do some experiments extending into game production the assets, tools and techniques that we established under ILM for movie production," Plumer said. But to do this was tricky. They could shut...

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group of people didn't move down here until September." It was a pretty gutsy thing to do, especially given the high stakes involved and how dependent Lucasfilm and ILM are on their data center to get their work done. The 10 GB pipe really made a difference...

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