Toon town just got more crowded. Industrial Light & Magic, George Lucas’ legendary visual effects shop, is jumping into the feature animation business for the first time with Paramount’s “Rango.” ILM ...

It’s hard not to love K-2SO, the sassy security droid in Rogue One. He’s easily the biggest scene stealer in the film, much like C-3PO, R2-D2, and BB-8 in the other Star Wars movies. Which makes the ...

Defying every convention of the animated genre, Gore Verbinski’s PG-rated $135-million Rango opened well, at $38 million. Why? As Verbinski (who jumped ship on Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean ...

Almost lost in last week’s announcement that Paramount would make the Gore Verbinski–Johnny Depp animated feature “Rango” was the news that Industrial Light & Magic is entering the feature animation ...

Industrial Light & Magic is no stranger to realizing complex cg characters, and Supreme Leader Snoke in Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi – played by Andy Serkis – was one that they had actually tackled ...

Since the introduction of the first fully computer animated character in a feature film in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), the wizards at visual effects powerhouse Industrial Light & Magic have pushed ...

Fans of Lucasfilm’s animated shows got a scare this week with the reports that the studio would be shutting down ILM Singapore, its hub for animation and visual effects. It’s one of many extensions of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--When he started making his new film "Rango," director Gore Verbinski knew he wanted it to look and feel much like many of the Westerns it evokes: gritty, dirty, and sweaty. "He wanted ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

A scene in Star Wars being edited in ILM's proprietary compositing package CompTime. ILM created its own compositor rather than using a commercial package such as Shake or RAYZ. “Linux is increasing ...