ILM Opens a New VFX Studio in Mumbai

American motion picture visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic, which worked on The Mandalorian, Avengers: Endgame, The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, and more, announced that it is launching a new full pipeline studio in Mumbai to "gain access to the incredible talent base in the region."

The new studio will join the company's existing divisions in Vancouver, London, Singapore, and Sydney. It will be led by the former head of studio at DNEG Bangalore & Chennai Kiran "KP" Prasad, who will report to ILM SVP and General Manager, Janet Lewin.

According to Lewin, the new visual effects studio will allow ILM to offer greater capacity and help the company "meet the industry's increasing demand for high-caliber visual effects."

"This new full-fledged visual effects studio in India will allow us to offer even greater capacity while ensuring that we always meet the high-quality bar that our clients expect of us," Lewin said in a statement.

"We’re excited to be building our ILM Studio in India where we can recruit the top artistic and technical talent from the visual effects industry now in India," SVP and chief creative officer of ILM Rob Bredow added. "This is the perfect time for ILM to form our sixth studio where artists will leverage our full pipeline of disciplines working across a wide variety of exciting shows – at the top quality and reliability our creative partners have come to expect from ILM."

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