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Incorporated on August 11th 1980 by Carl Rosendahl, PDI originally began in a small office in Los Altos. Carl grew up in LA and graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1979. Wanting to combine entertainment with his technical experience, computer graphics seemed a natural solution.
Pacific Data Images (PDI) was an American computer animation and visual effects production company based in Redwood City, California, that was bought by DreamWorks SKG in 2000. It was renamed PDI/DreamWorks and was owned by DreamWorks Animation.
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PDI was founded in 1980 by Carl Rosendahl with a loan of $25,000 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 ...
PDI/DreamWorks has produced Antz (1998), Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Madagascar (2005), Shrek the Third (2007), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), Megamind (2010), Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) and Penguins of Madagascar (2014). With US$441.2 million in domestic box-office ticket sales, Shrek 2 is curren...
PDI/DreamWorks has won nine 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 recognize...
Teddy Bear Maelstrom(September 2, 1983, Made by Glen Entis who Earned a $176,000 Budget)Elephant Bubbles(June 12, 1984, Made by Don Venhaus who Earned a $66,000 Budget)Max Trax(January 17, 1985, Adam Chin)Cosmic Zoom (AKA Comic Zoom) (May 1, 1985, PDI Staff)Rede Globo IDs'(1983-1986)WWOR-TV Movie Intros'(1984-1987)DiC EntertainmentKid in bed logo (effects) (1987-2001)PDI contributed visual effects, animation and other services to the following films: 1. Electric Dreams(1984) 2. Scrooged(1988) 3. Ghost (1990) (1st Visual Effects Done with Industrial Light & Magic) 4. Solar Crisis(1990) 5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991) 6. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare(1991) 7. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country(1991) ...
PDI (originally an initialism for Pacific Data Images and also known as PDI/DreamWorks) was an American computer animated production company that was bought by DreamWorks SKG in 2000. and became half of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., the public company formed by uniting PDI and the feature...
Aug 22, 2024 · Pacific Data Images was founded in 1980 by Carl Rosendahl in Sunnyvale, California (a suburb of Silicon Valley and San Francisco); his partners Richard Chuang and Glenn Entis wrote the company's computer software one year later on a DEC PDP-11/44, which transitioned into a DEC VAX-11/780, which was to be a part of the studio's goal to ...
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Oct 27, 2020 · Forty years ago, Richard Chuang, Glenn Entis, and Carl Rosendahl began building what would later become a crucial piece in the creation of the computer graphics/animation industry: Pacific Data Images, or PDI. At SIGGRAPH 2020, the trio presented a Panel on how they built the impossible from scratch.
