The story
History
The company was founded by Paul Beigle-Bryant and Ron Thornton. It pioneered digital imaging for television programming using Newtek's LightWave 3D, originally on Commodore Amiga based Video Toaster workstations.
Dissolution
The company was dissolved after work on season one of Star Trek: Enterprise had been completed and the company assets were sold off in a public auction on December 17, 2002 by Brian Testo Associates, LLC.
Legacy
The company's pioneering work on Babylon 5 popularized using the software package Lightwave 3D on US TV shows for CGI visual effects, which led to it becoming an industry standard throughout the 1990s.
Key animators from the company and Emmy Award-winners Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz and John Teska remain major figures in the visual effects field for their work on shows such as the rebooted Battlestar Galactica and Lost.
Project history
Movies
The Jackal (1997)
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998)
Today's Life (2000)
The Legend of Zu (2001) (Blood Sea sequence)
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They Crawl (2001)
Project Viper (2002)
The Extreme Team (2003)
Live action series
Babylon 5 (1993 – 1996) (seasons 1–3)
Hypernauts (1995 – 1996) (season 1)
Star Trek: Voyager (1996 – 2001) (seasons 3–7)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1997 – 1999) (the season 5 finale, seasons 6–7)
Young Hercules (1998 – 1999)
Dawson's Creek (2000) (single episode water effects)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001 – 2002) (season 1)
Animated series
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999)
Max Steel (2001)
Dan Dare (2002)
Video games
Twisted Metal: Black (2001) (CG movie and visual effects)
DVD
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (DVD director's edition)
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