Darth Mickey

Maybe it was due to Sandy, but I had missed this: Disney is Buying Lucas Film, which includes Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). I generally am not a fan of industry consolidation, but this one specifically worries me. Not because I fear a Disneyfied Star Wars, but because when I saw Rango I was happy that at least one big animation studio was approaching feature animation in a different way, not using the now the default PIXAR approach. Hopefully there will be a place for ILM Feature Animation now that they are under the same parent company as PIXAR, but it would surprise me. Currently, they have no feature animation in production.