Via Starwars.com:

THE ILM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER TALKS TO STARWARS.COM ABOUT HIS CAREER, FROM INTERNSHIPS TO RATHTAR TENTACLES.

Inside ILM is a feature in which StarWars.com talks to the gifted folks — many unsung — at Lucasfilm’s legendary visual effects house Industrial Light & Magic. Here, we’ll discuss their career paths, experience, and unique contributions to a galaxy far, far away and film in general.

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Noah Lockwood grew up with a love of comics, sci-fi, video games, and animation. Chief among those loves, however, was Star Wars, and Lockwood — who lined up to see the Special Editions and prequels at midnight on opening day, and spent hours mastering Jedi Knight and X-Wing — decided as a teenager that a gig Industrial Light & Magic would be his dream job. Just a few years later, that dream came true. Today, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter and is a research and development engineer on the Virtual Production team at ILM, developing tools for Star Wars effects and more. StarWars.com spoke to Lockwood about how he got in the ILM door, contributing to The Force Unleashed early in his career, and helping to bring one of Star Wars‘ deadliest monsters to life.

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