We are proud to announce Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind will be honored with a prestigious Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement – Attraction in 2024 by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA). Internationally recognized, the Thea Awards acknowledge exceptional achievements in the themed entertainment industry and celebrate the creative teams who bring immersive experiences to life. Under...
The nominations for the 2023 Emmy Awards have been revealed, and three ILM projects were recognized with nominations. Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian, Andor, and Amazon Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power were each nominated in the Special Visual Effects category.
Everyone at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), has been honored to call Jean Bolte a colleague, and after 35 years she’s now leaving to pursue her own work as an artist. Jean first arrived here in 1987 when she joined the hallowed Model Shop at ILM’s former Kerner facility in San Rafael, California. With prior experience working...
The Visual Effects Society announced its nominees for the 21st Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in features, animation, television, commercials, and video games and the VFX Supervisors, VFX Producers and hands-on Artists who bring this work to life. ILM received 18 nominations across 11 projects...
Today, teams across Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Lucasfilm mourn the loss of our former colleague Richard Miller, who recently passed away at the age of 80. Before he was hired at ILM in 1981, Miller worked as a freelance sculptor and jeweler, developing a unique style of sculpting characters that fused modern flair...
ILM’s creative teams were honored with an Emmy® award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie for The Book of Boba Fett, alongside nominations for their work on The Witcher.
The Television Academy today announced the recipients of the 74th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Awards honoring an individual, company, or organization for developments in broadcast technology. Industrial Light & Magic is proud to be the recipient of an Emmy Award for its StageCraft virtual production tool suite. StageCraft has been used on such series as The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, How I met your Father, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and The Old Man.
Disney+ released the trailer and key art for Lucasfilm and Imagine Documentaries’ “Light & Magic,” an immersive series that chronicles the untold history of world-renowned Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the special visual effects, animation and virtual production division of Lucasfilm.
The Epic Series Will Be The First Production To Utilize ILM’s Latest State-Of-The-Art Stagecraft Virtual Production Stage Recently Built In Vancouver, British Columbia.
Granted unparalleled access, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan takes viewers on an adventure behind the curtains of Industrial Light & Magic, the special visual effects, animation and virtual production division of Lucasfilm. Learn what inspired some of the most legendary filmmakers in Hollywood history.
Join employees across Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm, ILMxLAB, and Skywalker Sound as they share stories on discovering their passions, beginning their careers, and the challenges and satisfactions of working in their current roles and departments.
Join Gareth Edwards and the Publicity Group at Industrial Light & Magic as we look back at his time directing "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story". Gareth discussed the cutting-edge virtual production used for the film, and the ways in which George Lucas inspired him as a filmmaker.
The cinematographer for Denis Villeneuve's "Dune", and Matt Reeve's upcoming "The Batman", joins Industrial Light & Magic's Publicity Group to discuss his work on "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story". Greig shares how the early Kenner action figures inspired his love of Star Wars, and the influences he found in 1970s cinema, the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, and the film "The French Connection".
Industrial Light & Magic is thrilled to announce an exciting partnership with Disney’s Technology Innovation Group on Marvel Studios’ Eternals: AR Story Experience for the iPhone® and iPad®. In this augmented-reality app, the characters, world, and stories of the Eternals film have been brought to life like never before.
Visual effects and virtual production pioneer Industrial Light & Magic today announced plans to expand its StageCraft LED virtual production services to Vancouver, British Columbia. The stage, at over 20,000 square feet, is expected to house one of the largest StageCraft LED volumes in North America. This will be ILM’s fifth permanent volume, supporting the...
In a new “Behind the Magic” video released on YouTube and Instagram, enjoy a glimpse behind the virtual production of NBC Sports’ Sunday Night Football show opening, featuring country music star Carrie Underwood. “This was yet another successful demonstration of the end-to-end services available through ILM’s virtual production platform, ‘StageCraft™’,” says Chris Bannister, Executive Producer...
The Hollywood Professional Association announced the nominees for its annual HPA Awards for post-production, an honor that promotes outstanding creative artistry, and recognizes the achievement of talent, innovation, and engineering excellence. ILM is thrilled to have contributed to three shows nominated in the Outstanding Visual Effects category this year. Nominees include Richard Bluff, Hal Hickel,...
