Lilo & Stitch

I worked on Disney’s Lilo & Stitch as a Computer Graphics Supervisor at ILM, helping bring one of animation’s most recognisable characters into a live-action world.

The film had to bring a fully digital Stitch into scenes with live performers while preserving the warmth, mischief, and comic timing of the original character. That balance was the fun of it: Stitch needed to feel physically present in the scene while still being unmistakably Stitch.

My role spanned character, performance, layout, animation, lighting and compositing. The work succeeds when these elements operate as a coherent whole, allowing the audience to accept the character as a natural part of the world rather than noticing the technical process behind it.