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\"alumni_themagicofanimation_thumb\"<\/a>As a Hopkins freshman, Cary Phillips \u201985, MS \u201985,\u00a0took a special-interest course in chemistry. What fascinated him most wasn\u2019t the subject itself but a new way of depicting it: a 3-D, computer-generated illustration of a chemical process.<\/p>\n

Phillips\u2019 initial foray into digital imagery has led to a 20-year career with Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the visual effects and animation studio created by George Lucas for the original Star Wars<\/em> film.<\/p>\n

The technical details of Phillips\u2019 work are complex, but in short he creates software that allows animators to make an imaginary creature or character move and express itself. While other studios do full animations, ILM specializes in integrating computer-generated and filmed images. For example, the squid-faced Davy Jones character in the second Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> movie was a composition of actor Bill Nighy\u2019s performance and voice and ILM digital effects.<\/p>\n

As R&D supervisor, Phillips oversees the technical details of the three to five major productions and three to five minor productions that ILM handles each year. His past work has included all the Star Wars<\/em>, Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>, and Transformers<\/em> movies and the first six Harry Potter movies, for starters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re in the middle of it, you\u2019re pulling your hair out\u2014it can be extremely stressful,\u201d Phillips says. \u201cBut to be part of films that have been seen around the world can be very gratifying\u2014especially for an engineer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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