FOREAL Competitors

Founded by George Lucas in 1975, ILM creates iconic moments that inspire the imagination. Home of Lighter Darker: The ILM Podcast. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Since 1975, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, ILM continues to break new ground in the field not only in visual effects but now virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive entertainment, and virtual production. ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, with studios located in San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Sydney, and Mumbai. The company serves the motion picture, television, streaming, commercial production, and attraction industries. ILM has created visual effects for over 500 feature films and television shows.

Framestore is a Bafta and Oscarawarding winning creative studio that offers a range of visual effects, production, direction and post production services to its film and integrated advertising clients. It is famous for its VFX work for films such as Gravity, Harry Potter and Avatar, its CGI recreation of Audrey Hepburn for Galaxy and its pioneering virtual reality (VR) experiences, such as Game of Thrones: Ascend the Wall for HBO. Framestore is based in London, New York, Montreal and LA, with its four locations providing animation, colour grading, concept art, design, digital, digital imaging, film VFX, interactive installations, Labs, live action production and direction, previsualisation (previs) and visual development.

Founded in 2005 just outside Portland, Oregon, LAIKA has produced five films: Missing Link (2019), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), The Boxtrolls (2014), ParaNorman (2012) and Coraline (2009). All were nominated for the Academy Award® for Outstanding Animated Feature. Kubo and the Two Strings won the BAFTA® Award for Best Animated Film and received an additional Oscar® nomination for Visual Effects. Missing Link was awarded the Golden Globe® for Best Animated Film. LAIKA was awarded a Scientific and Technology Oscar® in 2016 for its innovation in 3D printing. LAIKA is currently in production on its next animated film Wildwood. The studio is developing the animated feature films The Night Gardener, from an original idea by Bill Dubuque, creator of the hit series Ozark, and Piranesi, based on the NYT bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke with a screenplay to be written by Dave Kajganich. LAIKA’s Live Action subsidiary has a range of projects in development including feature films based on the action thriller novel Seventeen by screenwriter John Brownlow; an original script Crumble, written and directed by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous) with Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-verse films) producing, and an original project from Oscar®-nominated screenwriter Jon Spaihts (Dune). Captain Marvel filmmakers Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck will write and direct LAIKA’s live action adaptation of #1 New York Times bestselling author Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new novel Atmosphere.