Captain America: Civil War
For Civil War ILM’s visual effects team supervised by Russell Earl, and animation supervisor Steve Rawlins, were charged with creating a massive action set piece, known as the Splash Panel in graphic novel parlance, that would sit right in the middle of the film. The sequence runs approximately 20-minutes as the two sides face off…
Doctor Strange
Working with Marvel visual effects supervisor, Stefane Ceretti, ILM visual effects supervisors Richard Bluff and Mark Bakowski along with their teams in Vancouver, San Francisco, and London, were primarily responsible for contributing 300 shots for two key set pieces of the film: a mind bending kaleidoscopic New York sequence done in Vancouver and San Francisco,…
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Spectre
Directed by Sam Mendes, Spectre is the twenty-fourth film in the legendary James Bond franchise. For the opening chase through Mexico City during the Día de los Muerto festival, ILM’s team led by visual effects supervisor, Mark Bakowski, combined special effects elements of a section of the building being destroyed that had been created by…
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 Academy Award® nominee for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon and race against the Decepticons to reach it and learn its secrets.
Pacific Rim
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. The number one challenge for ILM on Pacific Rim was scale. Virtually every frame of Guillermo del…
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization’s name. With the high number of complex live-action stunts in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, ILM’s job involved a high number of shot alterations to eliminate safety…