by John Hannon | May 20, 2015
Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman. In part a reaction to the computer-generated effects in Mars Attacks!, director Tim Burton opted to go old...
by John Hannon | May 20, 2015
Following the Normandy landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. ILM has always needed to react to what George Lucas wanted — that is, to add effects to footage he shot, they...
by John Hannon | May 20, 2015
A legendary 15-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by a zoologist and a young woman whom he grew up with. By 1998, audiences were far too sophisticated to settle for a film about a giant gorilla if the gorilla...
by John Hannon | May 20, 2015
A streetwise NYPD detective joins a secret organization that polices extraterrestrial affairs on Earth. From the fully animated CG close-up of Tony Shalhoub’s head to the one-quarter scale model of the Midtown Tunnel, Men in Black required ILM to utilize every tool in...
by John Hannon | May 16, 2015
A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with a different agenda. The successful creature animation in Jurassic Park left no doubt that ILM could put even more digital dinosaurs into this...
