Industrial Light and Magic

ILM, a division of Lucasfilm Ltd.,  was founded in 1975 by George Lucas in order to create the VFX for his space epic, 'Star Wars'. Which branches is San Francisco and Singapore, ILM is now one of the leading special FX companies in the world. ILM has created special FX for over 300 films, and has played a key role in 10 of the top 15 worldwide box office hits of all time, while contributing to half of the top 50. For over thirty years, ILM has set the standard for visual FX, and in the process created some of the most stunning images in film.

  Today, ILM features the largest and most advanced digital FX pipeline in the entertainment industry. From the earliest creation of wholly-computer generated characters in Terminator 2 : Judgement day, and Jurassic Park, to the life-like distortions of the human body in Death Becomes Her and The Mask; to the startling breakthroughs in film such as Twister, Star Wars : Episode 1 the Phantom Menace, The Perfect Storm, and Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Mans Chest, ILM is constantly expanding the possibilities of digital imagery.

  A typical project at ILM will be a mixture of concept designs, computer graphics FX, models and miniatures, digital environments, and state-of-the-art animation. An international talent base is represented in an artistic and relaxed environment that mingles fine arts degrees with software engineers, traditional animators, and expert model makers and texture artists with PhD's. Creativity has propelled new technologies into the movie moments that continue to thrill and transport audiences globally.