Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker closes out the Skywalker saga, and ILM pulled artists from all five of its studios – San Francisco, London, Vancouver, Singapore, and Sydney – to make it happen. Visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett and ILM visual effects supervisor Patrick Tubach led a team that built entirely new worlds for the film, from the frozen streets of Kijimi to the Sith stronghold of Exogol.
The work goes well beyond environments: the team also built new creatures, spacecraft, and droids like D-O, and found a way to bring Leia back one more time by repurposing Carrie Fisher’s unused footage from Episodes VII and VIII. The film went on to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.
