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Ilion Inc.
Founder(s)	Chris Del Miguel, Raman Hui
Number of employees	500 (2022)

Ilion Animation Studios (or as a visual effects studio Ilion Inc.) is a Spanish-English visual effects and animation studio based in Pacific Shores Resort. It is a subsidiary of Spain Higu Miguel to create computer-animated movies for theatrical release. The company has produced 600 commercials and has contributed to more than 90 films.

History

1982-1986: Early history

Ilion Inc. was originally based in Madrid, Spain. Chris Del Miguel and Raman Hui, founded the company in the year of 1982 to make CGI animation and short films.

Ilion Animation Studios is a partner with U-Tad, which is a European University that is specialized in digital arts and technology. Ilion comes up with all of its own visual effects content. On occasion, Ilion works with some of its third parties.

Ilion Animation Studios is independently and privately owned. In March 13, 1983, Chris Del Miguel and Raman Hui was joined by Shigeru Miyamoto, and then Jim Honkifians in 1984, with Shigeru and Jim on Ilion Inc.'s side, the company began doing CGI. In December 14, 1984, David Soliani joined the company after gradulating Artifilm High School, with Jack Lin, Chris Tesla, Robert Jimochis and Tesla Mandi. In January 14, 1985, Raman Hui hired his friends and PDI workers Bob Iger and the then-president of PDI and the then-CEO of DreamWorks Animation Jeffrey Katzenberg as technical officers, and then Chris Schon Miguel as key of VFX management of the visual effects division of the company.

As for technoligy, the company has completely different hardware, while other visual effects studios has supercomputers, PDI and Ilion had cheaper hardware, which the computers has the same animation engine from PDI. Ilion did visual effects and animation on movies like Splash (1984) with PDI, Scrooged (1988), also with PDI, Arachniphobia (1990), and much more and also did cutscenes of Super Smash Bros. For The Wii U (2014) and Ultimate (2018).

1987-1991: Update

In January 22, 1987, the company was met with Cigam Entertainment, a Toronto-based game developer, to create games like Mario Takes America, and Collision World. But Ilion Inc. rejected Cigam's offer as "they don't do video games, they just do VFX", due to this, the cancelled games eventually went to Philips, and Cigam would eventually go bankrupt in 1994.

The company also did VFX computers like the Ilion-XTL55, the Ilion-56XTL, the Ilion-1285X, and the Ilion 84-3050. In July 1987, Ilion moved to Pacific Shores Center due to becoming a large VFX studio.

The company had announced plans to do VFX of live-action films and shorts and also planned to produce short films.

1991-1997: Leap into Pacific Shores Center

The company also had priyorites of moving to other locations as their first location being in Toronto, Canada in 1982. In 1991, the company moved to Pacific Shores Center. In July 1994, the company started to go to other work on television shows like SpongeBob Squarepants, and The Powerpuff Girls.

In 1995, the company acquired VFIX, a visual effects division of 20th Century Fox.

1997-present: Feature films

In 2001, the company had a first look deal with DreamWorks to create Madagascar. Madagascar was released by DreamWorks Pictures in May 17, 2005, it was followed by Cars in 2006.

roductions

Short films

1. Hoosi (1985, Richard Chuang)
2. Milo (1987, Raman Hui)
3. Toronto (1991, Miguel Sero Toro)
4. Lost World (1992, Jimmy Miguel)
5. Stree (1992, Jimmy Miguel)
6. Reist (1993, Raman Hui)
7. The World Of Heaven (1995, Richard Chuang)
8. Chris (1995, Chris Del Miguel)
9. Stoppy (1996, Richard Chuang)
10. Basic (1998, Raman Hui)
11. Ihue (1998, Richard Chuang)
12. Awful (1999, Jimmy Miguel)
13. Nicoid (2001, Richard Chuang)
14. Mi (2001, Chris Weitz)
15. Minoo (2002, Chris Weitz)
16. Acception (2004, Raman Hui) - final short work

Film Effects

1. Splash (1984)
2. Scrooged (1988)
3. Arachniphobia (1990)
4. Ghost (1990)
5. My Girl (1991)
6. Terminator II: Judgement Day (1991)
7. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
8. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
9. The Last Boy Scout (1991)
10. Body Parts (1991)
11. Freejack (1992)
12. Sleepwalkers (1992)
13. The Babe (1992)
14. Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
15. Batman Returns (1992)
16. Toys (1992)
17. Dennis The Menace (1993)
18. Rookie Of The Year (1993)
19. Hearts and Souls (1993) (visual effects and title sequences)
20. Super Mario Bros. (1993)
21. The Lion King (1994)
22. Tommy Boy (1995)
23. Aladdin and the King Of Theives (1996)
24. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1996)
25. Joe's Apartment (1996)
26. Fungus (1996)
27. Muppet Treasure Land (1996)
28. Batman and Robin (1997)
29. The Game (1997)
30. Dante's Pack (1997)
31. Nothing To Lose (1997)
32. The Pest (1997)
33. Home Alone 3 (1997)
34. The Out-Of Towers (1999)
35. The 6th Day (2000)
36. Under Suspicion (2000)
37. The Road To El Dorado (2000)
38. Scary Movie (2000)
39. Shanghai Noon (2000)
40. Titan A.E (2000)
41. A.I. Artificial Intellagence (2001)
42. Original Sin (2001)
43. Heist (2001)
44. Scary Movie 2 (2001)
45. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
46. Minority Report (2002)
47. Resident Evil (2002)
48. Spider Man (2002)
49. Treasure Planet (2002)
50. Scooby-Doo: The Movie (2003)
51. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
52. The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (2004)
53. King Kong (2005)
54. The War Of The Worlds (2005)
55. Batman Begins (2005)
56. The Island (2005)
57. Hot Air Ballroom (2005)
58. Charlotte's Web (2006)
59. Nacho Libre (2006)
60. Barnyard (2006) (animation)
61. The Dark Knight (2007)
62. Underdog (2007)
63. The Invisible (2007)
64. Evan Almighty (2007)
65. Shrek The Third (2007) (additional animation)
66. 27 Dresses (2008)
67. The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
68. Hotel Of Dogs (2009)
69. Leap Year (2010)
70. Diary Of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
71. Megamind (2010) (additional animation)
72. The Switch (2010)
73. Yogi Bear (2010)
74. Brave (2012)
75. Walking With Dinosaurs (2013)
76. Sim City 2 (2014)
77. TMNT (2014)
78. Transformers: Age Of Extinction (2014)
79. How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
80. The Maze Runner (2014)
81. TMNT 2 (2016)
82. Ghostbusters (2016)
83. Finding Dory (2016)
84. Moana (2016)
85. Alice Through The Magical Mirror (2016)
86. Ferdinand (2017) (additional animation)
87. 6 Underground (2019)
88. Detective Pikachu (2019)
89. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
90. The Lion King (2019)
91. Playing With Fire (2019)
92. No Time To Die (2021)
93. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021)
94. Scream (2022)

Feature films

Released films

#	Title	Release date	Budget	Gross	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic	Co-production
1	Planet 51	November 20, 2009 (2009-11-20)	$70 million	$105.6 million	21%	39	HandMade Films TriStar Pictures
2	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	December 14, 2012 (2012-12-14)	$650 million	$15.6 million	27%	30	20th Century Fox Blue Sky Studios Vanguard Animation Walden Media The Jim Henson Company Klasky Csupo
3	Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission Implausible	November 28, 2014 (2014-11-28)	$12.5 million	$5.5 million (in Spain)	60%	-	Warner Bros. Pictures Televisión Española Zeta Cinema Películas Pendelton
4	Wonder Park	March 15, 2019 (2019-03-15)	$80-100 million	$119.6 million	34%	45	Paramount Animation Nickelodeon Movies
5	Luck	August 5, 2022

#	Title	Release date	Ref(s)	Co-production
5	Luck	February 18, 2022 (2022-02-18)		Apple TV+ Skydance Animation
6	Spellbound	TBA

Television series

Title	Release date	Co-production	Network	Notes
Adventures in Wonder Park	TBA	Paramount Animation Nickelodeon Animation Studio	Nickelodeon	Second Paramount Television series to be produced for Nickelodeon.

Miscellaneous work

• The Christmas Chronicles (elves animation)

External links

• Official website
• Skydance Animation Madrid on IMDb

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