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	Dennis Muren: The Magic of ILM - ComingSoon.net
		Dennis Muren: The deadline might have been the hardest part, and it was pretty tight in the end, because normally, we've got twice as long.
		Muren: Yeah, and Steven was good in that he kept Dan on the set all the time of the shoot to pre-vis ideas that he had coming up.
		Muren: I had to bring in another supervisor, Pablo Hellman, because there was no way that ILM could have kept the quality of the work up during the 8 months we had on the show.
	www.comingsoon.net /news/featuresnews.php?id=10193 (3505 words)

	Dennis Muren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dennis Muren (born November 1, 1946) is an American film special effects artist, most notable for his work on the films of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
		Muren was born in Glendale, California, where he developed an interest in film-making and special effects from an early age.
		Dennis is married to British documentary filmmaker "Dream of The Sea Ranch" and Landscape Architect Zara Muren, and they have two children together.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dennis_Muren (401 words)

	Dennis Muren
		Representing Dennis was a ten minute film collage of magic that he has created in cinema.
		When Dennis attempts to define imagination, a picture is worth a thousand words.
		Dennis Muren filmography as presented by Pasadena City College.
	members.shaw.ca /uknow/dennismuren.htm (277 words)

	Star Wars - Chatting with Dennis Muren
		Dennis Muren, senior visual effects supervisor at the George Lucas special effects company Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), has won eight Academy Awards for his work on these and other films.
		Muren: It would have to be the end battle, the biggest and most complicated - to create the Gungan army and the droid army and have them fighting the way they are.
		Muren: There was an awful lot that was written for cloth simulation, so that the clothing would not have to be animated all the time, and our data pipeline was streamlined so we could get hundreds of characters into the shot so it wouldn't freeze.
	www.lightsaber.com /starwars/chat-muren.html (761 words)

	Production notes - The movie - THE HULK - Virgin.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Muren elaborates, "Unlike, say, Jurassic Park, where the actors and the dinosaurs shared screen time but didn't interact much on a one-to-one basis, the Hulk has to appear and act opposite the main characters.
		Paramount to all—everyone from director Lee and the producers to Brady, Muren and the ILM crew—was the creation of an authentic Hulk, respectful of the rich Marvel heritage and the definitive artwork of the creature's original Dr. Frankenstein, illustrator Jack Kirby.
		Dennis Muren summarizes, "In the end, the countless ILM man-hours gave birth to a creature that can lift 5,000 pounds, jump three miles at a time, run 100 miles-per-hour and that grows from nine feet to 12 feet, then to 15 feet tall.
	www.virgin.net /hulk/movie/productionnotes/3.html (3210 words)

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		Dennis was pursuing an interest in special effects when no one was even doing it as a career.
		Dennis was very direct in describing his road; to success: he grew up as a kid who was naturally interested in the visual arts like photography.
		Dennis' story teaches that you can be a pioneer and do something completely out of the ordinary if you have a passion to do so.
	www.roadtripnation.com /interviews/21 (440 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, EQUINOX (1970)
		Despite his dubious beginnings, Dennis Muren has gone on to become Senior Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, he has won eight Academy Awards (more than anyone else alive), and he is the only special effects artist to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
		So, if you are a Dennis Muren admirer or acolyte, EQUINOX will be of probably be of interest, just so you can see the humble beginnings of a master.
		For the record, Dennis Muren also directed (uncredited) and associate produced EQUINOX, which probably explains why he never pursued a career in either field.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews/equinox.html (1035 words)

	Dual Processing
		Even then, Muren wasn't convinced, not only because of the Internet's reputation for inaccuracy, but also because Spielberg had never told Muren what is now common knowledge: that he had been collaborating with Kubrick for years on the project.
		Muren and Farrar played crucial roles in bringing most of Baker's sketches to life for A.I., now a Spielberg film inspired by Kubrick — or a Kubrick film, directed by Spielberg, depending on whom you ask.
		But Muren says that for time and budget reasons, much of future Earth had to be represented digitally or with a combination of models and CG, such as the film's Rouge City sequence.
	millimeter.com /mag/video_dual_processing/index.html (1393 words)

	IGN: IGN Interviews ILM's Dennis Muren
		Dennis Muren and his team at Industrial Light & Magic, of course.
		IGN FILMFORCE: I was told that one of the things you do, or your visual effects designers do, is you try to remain curious about the shot that you're working on; that they in a sense meditate on the shot to always try and see something new about it.
		DENNIS MUREN: Yes, that is something you have to do.
	movies.ign.com /articles/630/630567p1.html (810 words)

	Cast Biographies
		Dennis Muren at ILM, Stan Winston and Michael Lantieri were all eager to apply newly-developed technologies to better what they accomplished with stunning effect on the first film.
		The Winston Studio's maquettes, scale models of the finished dinosaurs, were shared with Muren and his team at ILM, where they matched the colors, textures and movements of the digital creatures so that they would mesh seamlessly with Winston's live-action dinosaurs.
		The idea and overarching philosophy driving Muren and ILM is that filmmakers shouldn't have to think about the technology so that they can be free with the images.
	www.lost-world.com /Site_B/notes_prod4.html (2650 words)

	Cyber Cafe - Live Reports!
		Having been in the business for 20 years, Dennis Muren is convinced that with today's technology, and given enough time and money, you can do almost anything with visual effects.
		Shots are not being designed with the effects in mind, as in the past, but the effects are being used to better convey a story, and that's good for storytellers.
		Muren emphasizes, "Directors and storytellers will need to ask themselves 'what do I want to do with this technology, now that I have these new effects available to me?'"
	www.filmkauai.com /cafe/DennisMuren (749 words)

	VES '99: A Visual Effects Smorgasbord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There was enough to be gleaned from the combined talks of Dennis Muren, Rob Coleman, John Knoll and Scott Squires to write this entire column about how they did the effects for the picture.
		Dennis, fresh from receiving his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, did a two hour exploration of the Gungan underwater world and how the Gungan/Droid battle scene was created.
		A funny bit about Muren's collaboration with director George Lucas came when Dennis confided with the audience that Lucas saw the picture as a B movie, and said not to obsess on the details, although everyone in this business knows that visual effects people by their nature do just that.
	www.awn.com /mag/issue4.04/4.04pages/huelsmanves.php3 (2428 words)

	Star Wars: Biography \| Dennis Muren
		Dennis Muren is the Senior Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.
		Recipient of eight Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, Muren is actively involved in the evolution of the company, as well as the design and development of new techniques and equipment.
		In June 1999, Muren became the first visual effects artist to be honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
	www.starwars.com /bio/dennismuren.html (305 words)

	Star Wars: Hyperspace \| Classic Trilogy ILM Chat: Dennis Muren
		A recipient of eight Academy Awards, Muren was on the forefront of the digital revolution that changed the art of visual effects in the early 1990s.
		For Return of the Jedi, Muren served as Visual Effects Supervisor, a role he would share with other supervisors for Episodes I and II of the prequel trilogy.
		Dennis Muren will be online this Friday, September 10 at 2:30 p.m.
	www.starwars.com /hyperspace/about/news/news20040908.html (272 words)

	Dan Perez: Jurassic Park Interview
		Tippett, Winston and Muren, working with a combined staff of nearly 200 people, have used a variety of time-honored techniques and state-of-the-art technology to bring the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to life.
		Dennis Muren supervised the computerized graphic images of the dinosaurs at Industrial Light and Magic, using Pixar's Renderman and other sophisticated graphics packages.
		Muren admitted that he wasn't sure what level of close-up realism his computer graphics team could accomplish initially.
	www.sff.net /people/Dan.Perez/articles/jp-intvu.htm (1528 words)

	ILMfan.com :: eDIT/VES 2003 Report
		Dennis was looking around for projects while already working on commercials but there was just nothing around to do.
		Then when he was done on STAR WARS, Trumbull invited Muren to work on the mother ship sequence at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind which was a great pleasure for him.
		Cause this presentation was in English and presented by Dennis Muren and Gerald Gutschmidt.
	www.ilmfan.com /articles/2003/edit_ves_2003 (3727 words)

	IGN: IGN Interviews ILM's Dennis Muren
		Dennis Muren and his team at Industrial Light & Magic, of course.
		IGN FILMFORCE: I was told that one of the things you do, or your visual effects designers do, is you try to remain curious about the shot that you're working on; that they in a sense meditate on the shot to always try and see something new about it.
		DENNIS MUREN: Yes, that is something you have to do.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/630/630567p1.html (846 words)

	UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL INFO: Dennis Muren to work on A.I. and not Star Wars Episode 2' -- Ain't It Cool News: The best ...
		Dennis Muren IS going to be working on the "Star Wars Episode II" stuff, but next year.
		We've recently heard from spies at ILM who tell us that Dennis Muren will be in charge of the effects for Steven Spielberg's (or Stanley Kubrick's, depending on who you're talking to) A.I. Muren and ILM will be working on this together.
		Since Muren will be lead on that project, he won't be working on Star Wars Episode II.
	www.aint-it-cool-news.com /display.cgi?id=6264 (472 words)

	VFXTalk.com - Deathfall interviews ILM senior visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		VFXTalk.com - Deathfall interviews ILM senior visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren.
		June 22nd, 2003 03:26 PM Deathfall interviews ILM senior visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren.
		Deathfall have published a very cool interview with Dennis Muren, senior VFX supervisor for ILM....read on...
	www.vfxtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=693 (52 words)

	Raiders of the Lost Ark : Nazi Spy/Effects Master
		As he does this, a man stares at him suspiciously from behind a copy of Life magazine(I think it was Life) and then he sinks down behind the magazine again...This man is Dennis Muren.
		Muren is one of the effects geniuses at ILM, George Lucas'; special effects company!
		I have a book by Thomas G. Smith entitled "Industrial Light and Magic-The Art of Special Effects" which shows a picture of "Dennis Muren (in Nazi spy costume)" (Thus says the caption.) If you can get the book, it is on page 140 in the lower-left hand corner.
	www.eeggs.com /items/20649.html (390 words)

	Dennis Muren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A towering figure in the field of visual effects in contemporary Hollywood, Muren has benefited enormously from participating in the waning and dawning of two distinct eras in movie FX.
		He was first trained in traditional labor-intensive stop-motion photography techniques (as exemplified by the work of Ray Harryhausen in the 1950s and early 60s) but quickly intuited that the future of visual effects would be computer-generated.
		Muren found the 60s to be a fairly unrewarding period for his artistry as he toiled on TV commercials in which such animated pop icons as the Pillsbury Doughboy and the Jolly Green Giant hawked their wares....
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/188779 (491 words)

	The Art of 3D Computer Animation - Kerlow - Academy
		Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Lorne Peterson, George Gibbs, Lucasfilm, Paramount.
		Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup, Kenneth Smith, Warner Bros.
		Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren, Jr., Robert Skotak, Carolco, TriStar.
	www.artof3d.com /academy.htm (1365 words)

	Dennis Muren - Interview
		Dennis Muren is the only special effects artist with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Stars.
		Dennis Muren: [Laughs] Well, there was no field when I was a kid.
		I have been interested in it since I was about seven years old.
	www.sci-fi-online.50megs.com /Interview/04-08-16_DennisMuren.htm (2483 words)

	Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Reel
		Dennis Muren has been at the forefront of modern-day visual effects in movies for about twenty-six years.
		Muren recently sat down with the press to talk about his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the movie.
		Dennis Muren (DM): They're sort of all over the place: families, friends.
	www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=2317 (2481 words)

	CGTalk - Interview with Matrix's John Gaeta
		It's like Dennis Muren and Lucas/McCallum taking the credit for all of ILM's great work, and the guys in the trenches getting no credit.
		This is the guy who talked smack about Dennis Muren a couple year ago.
		haha - i bet Dennis Muren would piss himself laughing if he realized that people on forums are talking about other sups hanging off of his 'jock'.
	forums.cgsociety.org /printthread.php?t=62112 (309 words)

	Breakdown of Hulk Movie Special Effects
		Chris Townsend and his co-CG sups Gerald Gutschmidt and Michael Dicomo worked closely with veteran visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren and director Ang Lee to achieve just the shade of rage that Lee was looking for in the Hulk.
		So Dennis grabbed a big sheet of white material, put it on floor, and turned them on to get the pattern projected.
		That made the character pop, like he was not quite in the scene, so we had to manipulate the colors of everything.
	www.comicbookmovie.com /news/articles/685.asp (1375 words)

	Quint has seen the Criterion DVD of Dennis Muren's '60s Creature Feature EQUINOX!!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in ...
		This film was spear-headed by future ILM genius Dennis Muren in the 60s, when he was a teenager.
		Both cuts have commentaries, with co-directors Muren and Mark McGee and effects honcho Jim Danforth on the second cut and Jack Woods (credited as "director") and producer Jack H. Harris on the theatrical cut.
		There's also an Interview With Dennis Muren where he's talking about his experiences making the movie and growing up a sci-fi and fantasy nut.
	www.aintitcool.com /display.cgi?id=23642 (1111 words)

	Death Fall \| Dennis Muren and HULK
		This tutorial helps you to create a 50 page hard cover bound book.
		Dennis Muren talks about the making of Hulk, very interesting interview.
		Q: Can you talk about the first meetings with Ang, in particular with how it relates to CG being such a new part of his vocabulary?
	www.deathfall.com /article.php?sid=2546 (1021 words)

	The Boba Fett Fan Club - News Report: Star Wars DVD Available
		Commentary by George Lucas, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren, and Carrie Fisher
		Commentary by George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Lawrence Kasdan, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren, and Carrie Fisher
		Commentary by George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren, and Carrie Fisher
	www.bobafettfanclub.com /archives/000039.html (196 words)

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