The Lone Ranger
Academy Award® Nominee for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. Native American warrior, Tonto, recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice. Sometimes the best visual effects are the ones that no one notices. In Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, ILM contributed hundreds of invisible visual-effects shots…
Iron Man 2
2011 Academy Award® Nomination for Best Achievement in Visual Effects.
Ant-Man
ILM was largely responsible for the design, development and visuals effects for the Quantum Realm sequences in Ant-Man. Inspired by images taken through electron microscopes, the visual effects team created specialized software which would allow artists to procedurally generate subatomic elements which could be visualized infinitely. Providing the sensation that Ant-Man was staying still while…
Hitman: Agent 47
Hitman: Agent 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck.
The Revenant
The Revenant is a period tale of survival and revenge set in the 1820s. It was shot entirely with natural lighting in remote locations. For ILM, that meant that every visual effect had to fit convincingly into the locations and adhere to the high standards of the filmmakers, director Alejandro G. Inarritu, and cinematographer Chivo…
Warcraft
The realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, an unlikely set of heroes are…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
In creating the visual effects for The Force Awakens we sought to capture the feeling of the original trilogy and that meant lots of practical creatures and effects and better use of sets and locations. That’s in the DNA of the original films but visual effects supervisor and second unit director Roger Guyett also didn’t…
Rango
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. ILM took a unique approach to the animation of Rango by focusing on creating a photographic look for the world and its characters. With constant awareness of…