It’s a busy week! E3 begins Wednesday at the Los Angeles Convention Center and REVENGE OF THE SITH opens Thursday. You can be sure that VFXWORLD will cover both in-depth. In fact, in honor of the final STAR WARS movie, we have our very own editorial trilogy, beginning Thursday with an overview of ILM’s digital accomplishments throughout the prequels. This will be followed by a report on the latest 3D environments and the making of the newest CGI villain, General Grievous.

Meanwhile, this week you can also read what Tony Cristiano of Side Effects Software thinks about “The Great Divide” between large and small CG facilities, and how Tito Belgrave assesses the new PARIAH game from Digital Extremes.

Bill Desowitz
Editor