Deepwater Horizon
Deepwater Horizon depicts the events that led up to that catastrophe and the heroic actions of the rig workers working on the oil rig as they tried to keep the impending disaster at bay and ultimately escape the inferno of the rig alive. The seriousness of the subject matter meant that the pressures on the…
The Big Short
For The Big Short writer/director Adam McKay was looking for a specific effect to move the narrative forward. Not afraid to use unconventional effects as evidenced by the inclusion of cameos by Margot Robbie, Anthony Bourdain, Selena Gomez, and Richard Thaler, who break the fourth wall to explain complex financial concepts, McKay sought to depict…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
TMNT: Out of the Shadows features believable CG character performances for six lead characters created with equal parts performance capture and keyframe animation. Developed for the film, ILM Muse allows for the actor’s performance to be captured on-set or in a volume at the highest fidelity. Both were done for the film utilizing Technoprops award-winning…
Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets
Among the thousand planets that make up Luc Besson’s mega-city are two particularly interesting ones created by our visual effects artists. The “first mission” sequences introduce the film’s two main characters, Valerian and Laureline. One planet contains the universe’s biggest shopping bazaar – The Big Market consists of five million stores that line a cross-shaped…
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The visual effects on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story represent the work of hundreds of artists in eight countries. The final film contains 1,697 visual effects shots, covering a great many environment creation and extensions, vehicles, characters, blasters, explosions. Visual effects supervisor John Knoll who also served as an executive producer on the film…
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Strange events plague a family (Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw, Olivia Taylor Dudley) in their new home after they discover a video camera in the garage.
The Martian
The Martian directed by Ridley Scott depicts an astronaut’s struggle to survive on Mars after being presumed dead and left behind by his crewmates. ILM’s London-based effects team joined the production late in the schedule to contribute a number of shots depicting astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) operating a rover vehicle around on the Martian…
The Great Wall
A mystery centered around the construction of the Great Wall of China.