Intelligent Creatures (IC) is a motion picture visual effects company located in
Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
History
IC was founded on March 30, 2001 by current CEO Lon Molnar, a graduate of the
Vancouver Film School, Michael Hatton, Raymond Gieringer, and Wendy Lanning, and commenced production in 2002. The company was created in response to the demands of the visual effects industry, at a time when there was a shortage of visual effects vendors in Toronto.
Location
IC's studio is located in the east end of Toronto, in close proximity to
Pinewood Toronto Studios and
Cinespace Film Studios. A satellite office is located in North Bay, Ontario.
Projects
IC has worked with film studios such as
Warner Bros.,
Walt Disney Pictures,
Columbia Pictures,
New Line Cinema,
Paramount, and
20th Century Studios
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.
The company has worked on films such as
Zack Snyder's ''
Watchmen'' (for which it designed
Dave Gibbon's character
Rorschach Rorschach may refer to:
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** Rorschach test, his psychological evaluation method involving inkblots
* Rorschach (character), a character from the comics ''Watchmen''
* Rorschach (comic book), a 2020 comic
* ...
),
Darren Aronofsky's ''
The Fountain'', and
Alejandro González Iñárritu's ''
Babel
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*Babel (book), ''Babel'' (book), by Patti Smith
* Babel (2012 manga), ''Babel'' (2012 manga), by Narumi Shigematsu
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'', ''
Stranger than Fiction'', ''
Battle: Los Angeles'', and ''
Mr. & Mrs. Smith''. Titles currently in production include ''Omega'', ''Orphan Black'', ''Transporter: The Series'' and ''The Last Druid: Garm Wars''.
IC has received a nomination for ''Best Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program'' from the
Visual Effects Society for its work on Secret Universe: Journey Inside the Cell / Battlefield Cell (one part of the
Discovery Channel
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's
Curiosity).
IC Filmography
References
{{Primary sources, date=October 2007
VES Awards 2013 nominees
External links
IMDBOfficial Website
Entertainment companies established in 2001
Film production companies of Canada
Visual effects companies
Companies based in Toronto