Kong: Skull Island

Kong: Skull Island

The ILM Art Department got involved in Kong: Skull Island early on to develop and design key moments of the reimagined version of the classic King Kong narrative in collaboration with director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. ILM’s visual effects and animation team in San...
Transformers: The Last Knight

Transformers: The Last Knight

The Last Knight marked the fifth film in the Transformers series and one which had ILM reprising its role as lead visual effects house. Like each of the films that preceded it The Last Knight was chock full of massive action set pieces, explosions, destruction, and...
Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon depicts the events that led up to that catastrophe and the heroic actions of the rig workers working on the oil rig as they tried to keep the impending disaster at bay and ultimately escape the inferno of the rig alive. The seriousness of the subject...
The Big Short

The Big Short

For The Big Short writer/director Adam McKay was looking for a specific effect to move the narrative forward. Not afraid to use unconventional effects as evidenced by the inclusion of cameos by Margot Robbie, Anthony Bourdain, Selena Gomez, and Richard Thaler, who...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

TMNT: Out of the Shadows features believable CG character performances for six lead characters created with equal parts performance capture and keyframe animation. Developed for the film, ILM Muse allows for the actor’s performance to be captured on-set or in a volume...