George Lucas never founded a company.
George Lucas . He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises , as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic . Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967 , Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola . Industrial Light & Magic ( ILM ) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas . Lucasfilm . LLC is an American film and television production company based in the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco , California .