Art Dept Archive | Industrial Light & Magic https://dev-ilm.wds.io/art-department/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:43:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.ilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cropped-favicon-ilm-rr-32x32.png Art Dept Archive | Industrial Light & Magic https://dev-ilm.wds.io/art-department/ 32 32 The Eternaut Design Gallery https://www.ilm.com/art-department/the-eternaut-design-gallery/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:24:34 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=42119 A 2025 Netflix production, The Eternaut‘s story begins after a devastating toxic snowfall kills millions, Juan Salvo and a group of survivors in Buenos Aires must resist an invisible threat from another world.     Read more insights about The Eternaut from members of the ILM Art Department.

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]]> A 2025 Netflix production, The Eternaut‘s story begins after a devastating toxic snowfall kills millions, Juan Salvo and a group of survivors in Buenos Aires must resist an invisible threat from another world.

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Read more insights about The Eternaut from members of the ILM Art Department.

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]]> Tron: Ares Design Gallery https://www.ilm.com/art-department/tron-ares-design-gallery/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:03:22 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=41808 ILM partnered with director Joachim Rønning for Disney’s Tron: Ares, the newest installment in the beloved, groundbreaking cinematic universe. The story follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.     Read more insights about Tron:...

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]]> ILM partnered with director Joachim Rønning for Disney’s Tron: Ares, the newest installment in the beloved, groundbreaking cinematic universe. The story follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.

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Read more insights about Tron: Ares from members of the ILM Art Department.

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]]> Superman Design Gallery https://www.ilm.com/art-department/superman-design-gallery/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:33:43 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=41630 In his signature style, director James Gunn takes on the original superhero in the newly imagined DC universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who’s driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind. Click a gallery image to see it in full size. Read...

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]]> In his signature style, director James Gunn takes on the original superhero in the newly imagined DC universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who’s driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind.

Click a gallery image to see it in full size.

Read more insights from ILM’s artists.

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]]> The Electric State Design Gallery https://www.ilm.com/art-department/electric-state-design-gallery/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:22:58 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=41261 An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick. Click a gallery image to see it in full size.   Click here to read insights from the artists about their favorite pieces from The Electric State. Watch The Electric State...

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]]> An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.

Click a gallery image to see it in full size.

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Click here to read insights from the artists about their favorite pieces from The Electric State.

Watch The Electric State on Netflix.

 

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]]> Lilo & Stitch Design Gallery https://www.ilm.com/art-department/lilo-stitch-design-gallery/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:21:18 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=40997 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. Click a gallery image to see it in full size.   Click here to read insights from the artists about their favorite pieces from Lilo & Stitch. Watch Lilo...

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]]> 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.

Click a gallery image to see it in full size.

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Click here to read insights from the artists about their favorite pieces from Lilo & Stitch.

Watch Lilo & Stitch on Disney+.

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]]> Wicked: Concept Art https://www.ilm.com/art-department/wicked-concept-art/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:12:12 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=39592 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.  

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]]> 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.

 

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]]> Alien Romulus: Concept Art https://www.ilm.com/art-department/alien-romulus-concept-art/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:56:09 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=39249 From Xenomorphs and Facehuggers to spacecraft and enviroments, explore the concept art that the ILM art department brought to Alien: Romulus.     ILM Art department: Aaron McBride, Amy Beth Christenson, Alexander Jaeger, Fred Palacio, Igor Staritsin, Mathilde Marion.

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]]> From Xenomorphs and Facehuggers to spacecraft and enviroments, explore the concept art that the ILM art department brought to Alien: Romulus.

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ILM Art department: Aaron McBride, Amy Beth Christenson, Alexander Jaeger, Fred Palacio, Igor Staritsin, Mathilde Marion.

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]]> Transformers One: Concept Art https://www.ilm.com/art-department/transformers-one-concept-art/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:10:12 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=38986 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. Given that iconic Transformer designs often stem from their helmet shapes, the art department worked...

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]]> 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. Given that iconic Transformer designs often stem from their helmet shapes, the art department worked to seamlessly integrate faces into the helmets, enhancing their expressiveness while maintaining a mechanical, rigid aesthetic.

 

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]]> The Acolyte: A Design Case Study https://www.ilm.com/art-department/the-acolyte-a-design-case-study/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:20:51 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=38650 From lightsabers and starships to alien creatures and ancient temples take a look at more than a dozen conceptual artworks and designs made by ILM’s team of artists in collaboration with Lucasfilm.

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]]> From lightsabers and starships to alien creatures and ancient temples take a look at more than a dozen conceptual artworks and designs made by ILM’s team of artists in collaboration with Lucasfilm.

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]]> The Creator: A Design Case Study https://www.ilm.com/art-department/the-creator-a-design-case-study/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:07:19 +0000 https://www.ilm.com/?post_type=art-dept&p=38551 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. Early location footage was painted over with various levels...

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]]> 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. Early location footage was painted over with various levels of world elements in concept art and presented to ILM to do a few test shots. The reality was then extended to the characters. This allowed the actors’ performances to be real and in camera while enhancing them with either robotic portions or entire heads.

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