by John Hannon | May 8, 2015
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”...
by John Hannon | May 8, 2015
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...
by John Hannon | May 8, 2015
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...
by John Hannon | Apr 3, 2015
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....
by John Hannon | Dec 19, 2014
To help Luc Besson visualize how the title character, Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), unlocks the full potential of her brain after an apparent overdose of an experimental drug through no fault of her own, we had to think differently. This wasn’t a typical visual...
