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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.
Pacific Data Images (PDI) was an American visual effects and computer animation 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.
Jan 17, 2012 · Information on acquisition, funding, investors, and executives for Pacific Data Images. Use the PitchBook Platform to explore the full profile.
- Founder & Chairman
Pacific Data Images ( PDI ) 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 started in Los Altos, California in 1980, by Carl Rosendahl. He was soon joined by Richard Chuang (1981) and Glenn Entis (1982) and they moved to Sunnyvale. Frame from early PDI video reel.
- Wayne E. Carlson
- 2017
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...
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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 ...
