Your Of Foundation:- 1980
Founder Name:- Carl Rosendahl
Website:- Pacific Data Images or PDI/DreamWorks
Introduction:-
Pacific Data Images is a computer animation production company that was bought by DreamWorks SKG. The company is now known as PDI/DreamWorks and is half of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., the public company formed by merging PDI and the feature animation division of DreamWorks.
PDI History:-
PDI was founded in 1980 by Carl Rosendahl with a small loan from his father. He was joined in 1981 by Richard Chuang and in 1982 by Glenn Entis. Richard and Glenn wrote the foundation of the in-house computer animation software that was to be used for the next two decades. They started work on 3D software at the end of 1981, and 3D production started in the fall of 1982. The initial goal of the company was "Entertainment using 3D computer animation". By the time PDI reached its 25th anniversary in 2005, it had completed over 1000 projects, and grown from this initial staff of three to over 400 during this time.
Animated films:-
PDI/DreamWorks has produced six box-office hits with Antz (1998), Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Madagascar (2005), Shrek the Third (2007) and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). With $442.2 million USD in box-office ticket sales, Shrek 2 is currently the fourth highest grossing film of all-time in the United States.
PDI won their first Oscar for Best Animated Feature for Shrek in 2002.
PDI Awards:-
PDI/DreamWorks has won four Scientific and Technical Academy Awards. The first was awarded to Les Dittert, along with others, in 1994 for work in the area of film scanning. The second was awarded to Carl Rosendahl, Richard Chuang and Glenn Entis in 1997 for the concept and architecture of the PDI animation system. This award in particular recognized their pioneering work in computer animation dating back to the founding of PDI 17 years earlier.
Nick Foster was given an award in 1998 for PDI's fluid animation system (flu) and in 2002 Dick Walsh was given one for the development of PDI's Facial Animation System.
"Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" - 8th June 2012
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