Star Trek Into Darkness
The visual effects work on Star Trek into Darkness plays a pivotal role in creating this highly designed world, producing a scale and scope suitable for a space adventure. A large proportion of the movie was shot in the larger IMAX film format (almost half the final run time of the film), which was intercut…
Avengers: Age of Ultron
ILM contributed over 800 shots for Avengers: Age of Ultron, including the epic opening motorcycle chase through the snow-covered forest. Guided by visual effects supervisors Ben Snow and Mike Mulholland and ILM visual effects art director Alex Jaeger, the visual effects team also created the shots featuring The Hulk, Ultron, Iron Man, War Machine, Hulkbuster,…
Strange Magic
A madcap fairy tale musical of a fanciful forest turned upside down. Inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we are introduced to Bog King, leader of the Dark Forest, who hates the notion of love and has ordered the destruction of all primroses, which are an essential ingredient of love potions. However, when he meets…
Unbroken
Angelina’s Jolie’s Unbroken sought to implement cutting-edge special effects in a story-driven tale. The film required complex plane battles, crashes, environments, crowd extensions, and even sharks to help tell the story of bombadier Louis “Louie” Zamperini’s imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp after his B-24 Liberator crew crashed in the South Pacific.
Captain America: Winter Soldier
The main body of work that ILM was tasked to take on for Captain America: The Winter Soldier involved the reimagined Helicarriers, Falcon, S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, and the massive third act battle. Directors Joe and Anthony Russo were clear from the beginning that everything needed to be grounded in reality. ILM’s visual effects team created fully…
Noah
In addition to creating the Ark and the great flood as depicted in the biblical epic, ILM was tasked with helping Darren Aronofsky envision creatures such as the Watchers. Another challenge posed by the director was how to create a time-lapse depiction of 14 billion years of evolution. That took some time.
Jurassic World
Sometime years after Jurassic Park, the theme park is open. Colin Trevorrow’s take on what happens when the park is fully operational has a genuine nostalgia for the original films but takes the series in a new direction. The film grabs at some deeper ideas like what the world would be like if dinosaurs were…
Marvel’s The Avengers
As the Visual Effects Supervisor for ILM, Jeff White supervised the creation of 700 shots that encompassed a wide variety of sequences. During production, he collaborated on-set with production VFX supervisor Janek Sirrs to oversee plate photography for ILM shots. Because we were limited with principal photography in New York, White was part of the…