Art Department
Lilo & Stitch Design Gallery
Lilo & Stitch is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.
Alien Romulus: Concept Art
From Xenomorphs and Facehuggers to spacecraft and enviroments, explore the concept art that the ILM art department brought to Alien: Romulus.
Transformers One: Concept Art
For Transformers One, the art department aimed to create shapes and silhouettes that appeared clean and simple from a distance, yet included intricate, purposeful details up-close, such as cut lines in the panels, smaller inset geometry, and layered panel work.
The Creator: A Design Case Study
The world of the creator is full of wondrous life far beyond the story going on in the foreground. Director Gareth Edwards, having come from a visual effects background, had the vision to trust that ILM would build the world of the creator into his footage.
Transformers One: A Design Case Study
How do Transformers emote? That’s the challenge that the ILM Art Department had to design. Working with Director Josh Cooley and Production Designer Jason Scheier, the team decided to embrace the clean and simple charm of the 1980s animated characters.
Wicked: Concept Art
Jon Chu’s vibrant vision for Wicked required the design and realization of numerous characters, environments and props that would fill the lush continent of Oz. The ILM Art Department played a vital role supporting the VFX of the film by creating imagery to help visualize this vast world.
CREATURES + CHARACTERS
From the cuddly best friend, to Earth invading aliens, ILM brings to life the everyday and the unimaginable. Our team continues to collaborate with studios and directors to bring characters to life and create movie memories.
KEY FRAMES + ENVIRONMENTS
In the ILM Art Department, every piece that is created is targeted towards bringing a filmmaker’s vision to life. The mantra; “Each image must tell a story, and ask questions,” What happened before? What is happening now? What is going to happen in the future?