author : Thomas G. Smith

This large glossy book is packed with stills from various ILM films, with shots of how the FX were created, and with cameos of various ILM personnel.

There's a wealth of information in here, but I found it slightly turgid for what is, after all, a big coffee-table book. (And it's so heavy you have to read it at a table, not resting on your lap!) Maybe I just prefer watching the films to reading about how it was done...