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ILM Employee Spotlight: Carol Payne

In today’s employee spotlight we’re highlighting Color & Imaging Scientist, Carol Payne from our San Francisco studio.

ILM Garners 17 Nominations for the 17th Annual VES Awards

The Visual Effects Society released the nominations for the 17th Annual VES Awards this morning, and we’re thrilled to have been nominated for seventeen awards for our work in 2018. We’d like to congratulate all the nominees and thank our teams for their hard work. Our nominations include: Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature…

2019 BAFTA 'Special Visual Effects' Nominations Announced

This morning BAFTA announced the nominees for their annual awards ceremony on February 10th and we’re thrilled that ILM worked on three of the five films that made the list! Congratulations to our artists Russell Earl (VFX Supervisor, Avengers: Infinity War), Craig Hammack (VFX Supervisor, Black Panther), Roger Guyett (Visual Effects Supervisor, Ready Player One),…

ILM Artist Spotlight: Gary Wu

Gary Wu is a Creature Supervisor based out of ILM’s Vancouver studio.

91st Oscars Shortlist Announced

Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 91st Academy Awards, and we’re thrilled to have contributed to six of them. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 5, 2019. Following the screenings, members…

ILM's John Knoll Among Sci-Tech Awards Honorees

This article originally appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.  Nine technical achievements, represented by 27 individual award recipients including ILM’s John Knoll, will be honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on Feb. 9 at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. Also during the evening, cinematographer Curtis Clark…

ILM TV Executives

INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC LAUNCHES ‘ILM TV’

Industrial Light & Magic expanding its offering of best-in-class visual effects and animation services to include the streaming and episodic television market with a new division: ILM TV. The division will be based out of ILM’s new 47,000 square foot London studio and supported by the company’s global locations in San Francisco, Vancouver and Singapore….

Passion Projects: Jorik Dozy’s Award-Winning ‘Birthplace’

Senior Generalist, Jorik Dozy’s ILM credits include Avengers: Infinity War and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Recently, Jorik combined his love of the environment with his visual storytelling skills when he co-directed ‘Birthplace,’ Novo Amor’s impactful music video, which takes place on the ocean floor and highlights the tragic realities of plastic pollution. The video…