Communication & Anecdotes About Early Computer Animation

Dear Friends,

Some of you have noticed that it is hard to reach me on the phone.  That is correct it is, and it will continue to be so for a while.

One of the fun manifestations of being abused by the medical community is the difficulty in getting the medication necessary to process stress, where stress may include such things as going to the grocery store or starting thermonuclear war.

Therefore in order to prevent you from experiencing thermonuclear war, I constrict most communication to such things as email and text messages, with no guarantee for a prompt response to either.   Its for your own good, trust me.

Now on other news, we are collecting anecdotes on how you first did computer animation.  I had to walk through the snow for five miles each day, for example. Someone else had to type up vector lists on punched cards.  Still a third took a course in programming a plotter in Fortran from Nelson Max in 1975.  Please send me your stories.

You suffered and now you should get some recognition for your suffering.

Sincerely,
MW

Need Information on ILM Profitability

The LA Times published an article that said that ILM, Skywalker Sound & "other properties" made $258M in revenue in 2012.   I am trying to discover what percentage of that was ILM and how much profit was derived from the smaller, ILM only, revenue.

If you have an insight into this, please get in touch with me.

The LA Times article:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/31/business/la-fi-ct-disney-lucasfilm-20121101