Industrial Light & Magic

Industrial Light & Magic, usually called ILM, is an American visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion studio founded by George Lucas on 26 May 1975. It began as a group of young artists and engineers assembled in a Van Nuys warehouse under John Dykstra to build the effects for Star Wars, moved to Marin County in 1978 and since 2005 has worked from the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio of San Francisco. ILM is a division of Lucasfilm, which the Walt Disney Company bought in 2012. It has supplied effects for hundreds of films, among them the Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones films and the Jurassic Park films, and it has won fifteen Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects. Its early computer graphics group later became Pixar.