The Kerner Group is a collection of innovative companies and divisions that offer award-winning creative services to the major motion picture studios, independent filmmakers, television studios and production companies, and home entertainment projects, as well as to the music video and commercial production industries. The company also counts among its diverse client base the U.S. Government, corporations large and small, and private sector contractors. Kerner specializes in the conception, development, and production of practical special effects, emerging 3D technologies, architectural design and model production, technologies and equipment for the military in the area of medical training, and a variety of other unique products and services.

Kerner was originally the practical effects and camera engineering departments of George Lucas’ world renowned Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). In 2006, after relocating ILM’s digital effects team from the Kerner campus, Lucas sold the Kerner-based divisions in a management-led buyout that would allow the new Kerner team to branch out and create its own destiny. Today, the group is comprised of a number of exciting creative companies and divisions uniquely positioned to move KERNER's 30-year legacy even further into the 21st Century.