Hmmm…last Friday was the 19th anniversary of the Microsoft purchase of Softimage (15 Feb 1994). I really missed it on that one. Now I’ll have to wait for the 20th anniversary; hopefully I’ll still be doing Friday Flashbacks this time next year.
Anyways, on to this week’s flashback…From Jurassic Park (1993) to Gladiator (2001), a “representative sample” of motion pictures created with Softimage products.
| TITLE | CUSTOMER | YEAR |
|---|---|---|
| Gladiator | Mill Film | 2001 |
| Jurassic Park 3 | Industrial Light & Magic | 2001 |
| Moulin Rouge | 2001 | |
| The Mummy Returns | 2001 | |
| Shadows | Mitch Levine Director | 2000 |
| Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace | Industrial Light & Magic | 2000 |
| X-MEN | Pacific Ocean Post | 2000 |
| Fight Club | Pixel Liberation Front & BUF | 1999 |
| Forces of Nature | Dreamworks Pictures | 1999 |
| Galaxy Quest | Industrial Light & Magic | 1999 |
| Stuart Little | Centropolis FX | 1999 |
| The Mummy | 1999 | |
| Antz | Pacific Data Images & Dreamworks Pictures | 1998 |
| Babe: Pig in the City | Animal Logic | 1998 |
| Deep Impact | Industrial Light & Magic | 1998 |
| Deep Rising | Industrial Light & Magic | 1998 |
| Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas | Peerless Camera | 1998 |
| Flubber | Industrial Light & Magic | 1998 |
| Godzilla | Centropolis | 1998 |
| Jack Frost | Industrial Light & Magic and Warner Bros | 1998 |
| Jurassic Park 2 | Industrial Light & Magic | 1998 |
| Lost in Space | Framestore | 1998 |
| Matrix | Animal Logic | 1998 |
| Meet Joe Black | Industrial Light & Magic | 1998 |
| My Favorite Martian | Tippett Studio | 1998 |
| Prince of Egypt | Dreamworks Pictures | 1998 |
| Saving Private Ryan | Industrial Light & Magic | 1998 |
| Small Soldiers | Industrial Light & Magic | 1998 |
| Snake Eyes | Industrial Light & Magic | 1998 |
| Species II | Digital Magic & Transfer | 1998 |
| Sphere | Cinesite | 1998 |
| The Borrowers | Framestore | 1998 |
| The Thin Red Line | Animal Logic | 1998 |
| What Dreams May Come | Pacific Ocean Post | 1998 |
| A Simple Wish | Blue Sky | 1997 |
| Air Force One | Cinesite | 1997 |
| Alien Resurrection | Blue Sky – VIFX | 1997 |
| An American Werewolf in Paris | Santa Barbara Studios | 1997 |
| Anastasia | Fox Animation Studio | 1997 |
| Batman and Robin | BUF Compagnie | 1997 |
| Contact | Sony Pictures Imageworks and Weta Ltd. | 1997 |
| Men in Black | Industrial Light & Magic | 1997 |
| Mortal Kombat:Annihilation | The Digital Magic | 1997 |
| Spawn | Industrial Light & Magic | 1997 |
| Speed 2 | Industrial Light & Magic | 1997 |
| Starship Troopers | Tippett Studio | 1997 |
| Star Wars Trilogy | Industrial Light & Magic | 1997 |
| The Edge | Peerless Camera | 1997 |
| The Fifth Element | Digital Domain | 1997 |
| The Lost World | Industrial Light & Magic | 1997 |
| The Relic | VIFX | 1997 |
| Titanic | Digital Domain | 1997 |
| 101Dalmations | Industrial Light & Magic | 1996 |
| 12 Monkeys | Peerless Camera | 1996 |
| Dragonheart | Industrial Light & Magic | 1996 |
| Eraser | Mass Illusion | 1996 |
| Joe’s Apartment | Blue Sky | 1996 |
| Mars Attack! | Industrial Light & Magic | 1996 |
| Mission Impossible | Industrial Light & Magic | 1996 |
| Space Jam | Industrial Light & Magic | 1996 |
| Star Trek:First Contact | Industrial Light & Magic | 1996 |
| Surviving Picasso | Peerless Camera | 1996 |
| T2-3D | Digital Domain | 1996 |
| The Adventures ofPinocchio | MediaLab | 1996 |
| The Frighteners | Weta Ltd. | 1996 |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Digital Domain | 1996 |
| Balto | Amblimation | 1995 |
| Casper | Industrial Light & Magic | 1995 |
| Judge Dredd | 1995 | |
| Jumanji | Industrial Light & Magic | 1995 |
| La Cite des Enfants Perdus | BUF Compagnie | 1995 |
| Star Trek:Generations | Industrial Light & Magic | 1994 |
| The Flinstones | Industrial Light & Magic | 1994 |
| The Mask | Industrial Light & Magic | 1994 |
| The Shadow | R/Greenberg & Associates | 1994 |
| Death Becomes Her | Industrial Light & Magic | 1993 |
| Jurassic Park | Industrial Light & Magic | 1993 |
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X-MEN and What Dreams May Come was Pacific Ocean Post, Titanic was Digital Domain.
Thanks!
Does the bold face type highlighting for some titles signify anything?
Bold = meeting room name in the Softimage building
But I’m not 100% sure if I remember them all correctly…
Ah, thanks for the clarification… 😉
David Morin of f/x house Manex Visual Effects, the digital studio of Manex Entertainment. Moran previously was VP of special projects and content group at Softimage, a division of Avid Technology.
Manex Visual Effects won Academy Awards for “What Dreams May Come” and “The Matrix.”
Yes, I remember David Morin, the man in black (he always wore a black suit), from my first few years at Softimage. I can remember a presentation he gave about the effects in the The Matrix. Everybody was always talking about The Matrix back then; I’ve never actually seen the whole movie 😉
I wouldn’t worry about not seeing it, the previous Mr Jones saw it enough times for everybody! Twice. Why do you think I knew about it! 🙂
Oh. It´s time do bring Softimage back as major 3d Software of Hollywood movies. All Sumatra/Twister thing delay has been damaged almost to extintion in that time because Maya migration, now Softimage is resurrecting to new Glory and Merit! (i really believe in it).