Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé, while Obi-Wan investigates an assassination attempt on the Senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.

With this landmark film, ILM helped George Lucas realize his long-held dream of making the first all-digital movie.

As ILM had for Phantom Menace, the crew sent hundreds of CG characters and spaceships to galaxies far, far away, where planets fashioned from bits of real life, digital paintings and CG models provided Lucas’ digital stage. This time, though, Lucas captured the live action footage with digital cameras.

Among the technical evolutions in this film were techniques for simulating the dynamics of rigid bodies and cloth. Using the laws of physics, once set in motion, the digital replicas of real objects moved according to the same forces of gravity and friction that would have affected them in the real world.