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50 Years | 500+ Film and TV credits | 135+ Awards

SINCE 1975

Meet the Women of ILM – Kacy McDonald

TELL US ABOUT YOUR ROLE AT ILM, AND HOW LONG YOU’VE BEEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRYI have been in the film industry for 16 years. It is surprising how fast time goes when you are genuinely having a fun time. My role at ILM is a VFX Producer role. I oversee the schedule and budget…

Meet the Women of ILM – Clair Bellens

TELL US ABOUT YOUR ROLE AT ILM, AND HOW LONG YOU’VE BEEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRY. I’ve been with the company about one and a half years now. This past September I became a developer in ILM’s Research & Development group, my focus is mainly with the crowds department. My focus is more in helping…

Meet the Women of ILM – Rachel Reed

TELL US ABOUT YOUR ROLE AT ILM, AND HOW LONG YOU’VE BEEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRY. I am a production manager at ILM Vancouver, which means I’m responsible for the crewing and schedule of the show. I’ve been at ILM for 4 years. I coordinated on shows in some amazing legacy franchises like ‘Jurassic World’…

Meet the Women of ILM – Sophie Dawes

TELL US ABOUT YOUR ROLE AT ILM, AND HOW LONG YOU’VE BEEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRY. I’m currently a Visual Effects Producer at ILM London. A Producer’s job is to ensure the project delivers on time and on budget – that’s the definition of the role, but there is so much more to it than…

Meet the Women of ILM – Jayne Pong

TELL US ABOUT YOUR ROLE AT ILM, AND HOW LONG YOU’VE BEEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRY. ILM was my first step into the film industry! I joined ILM as a production accountant in May 2015 working alongside the production and global finance teams to set and forecast the budgets for feature productions. In late 2017,…

Meet the Women of ILM – Carol Payne

TELL US ABOUT YOUR ROLE AT ILM, AND HOW LONG YOU’VE BEEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRY. I am a Color & Imaging Scientist at ILM San Francisco. Our team works with every production and client to make sure image processing standards are of the highest quality throughout film production for all four of ILM’s global…

Jeff White Named Vancouver Creative Director

Recently, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored White and three colleagues with a Technical Achievement Award for his original design of ILM’s procedural rigging system, Block Party. He is also nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects for his contribution to Kong: Skull Island. Jeff White joined Industrial Light & Magic in…

MaterialX Open Sourced

Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) announced the inaugural Open Source release of the MaterialX Library for computer graphics. MaterialX is an open standard developed by Lucasfilm’s Advanced Development Group and ILM engineers to facilitate the transfer of rich materials and look-development content between applications and renderers. Industry-leading companies including Autodesk, Inc. and Foundry…