As the head of visual effects powerhouse Industrial Light & Magic, Rob Bredow is usually greeted each day by a welcoming statue of Yoda perched atop a fountain at the studio's headquarters in San Francisco's Presidio.
But like everyone at the company, Bredow has been working from home since March 17 after a nail-biting race to set up the VFX studio's staff to work remotely during the novel coronavirus outbreak. "We heard an early report at 11 a.m. [on March 16] that there might be an announcement coming out that day, and it was effective at midnight.
So we had to get everybody out and home, and that was quite an amazing sprint," he recalls. "The fact that the very next day we were up and running with everyone working remotely was a.
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