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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Industrial Light and Magic has delivered one of the coolest holiday treats with an animated gingerbread re-creation of the iconic “Destroying the Death Star” sequence from Star Wars IV: A New Hope .

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 ...

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 ...

"Ultraman - do your job!" Netflix has unveiled the full official trailer for Ultraman: Rising, a brand new animated take on Ultraman from director Shannon Tindle (also of Kubo and "Lost Ollie"). This ...

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 ...

For 35 years ILM has been creating creatures for almost every live action film. They worked with director Gore Verbinski on the "Pirates" franchise, which is why he picked ILM for his first animated ...