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VIFX
Established Date: Jan. 1, 1985
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- animation
- pioneer
- production
- co-founder
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VIFX was co-founded by partners Richard Hollander, Greg McMurry, Rhonda Gunner, and John Wash.
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The company's first job was to produce video display graphics for the feature film 2010: Odyssey 2. Virtually all the 3D CG in the early years was produced using Cubicomp equipment. Richard was inspired by a NASA/Kodak article about CCD technology and promptly designed and built a 1k by 1k input scanner for production use. The first digital composites it was used for were on the feature film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure in 1989.
2010, digital composites, Bill & Ted -
In about 1990, the company began creating more ambitious motion picture visual effects and was then known as VIFX/Video Image. Feature film visual effects work for 20th Century Fox and other studios was wide-ranging and extensive. The work included Batman Returns, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Down Periscope, Volcano, Face/Off, The X-Files, The Relic, Star Trek: Insurrection, Blade, and Pushing Tin.
1990's film visual effects -
VIFX was sold to 20th Century Fox in 1996, and partners Greg McMurry and Rhonda Gunner left the company.
sold to 20th Century Fox -
In 1998, the Fox animation production Planet Ice was changed from an all-3D CG feature to being traditional cel animation. This left VIFX with an opportunity to sell itself yet again to Rhythm & Hues in the spring of 1999. About 80 people, including Richard Hollander, transferred to the new company following the merger.
sold to Rhythm & Hues -
In August of 1997 Fox/VIFX purchased Blue Sky Studios ( New York )
purchase / merger of Blue Sky -
Blue Sky Studios -
Rhythm & Hues
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Richard Hollander -
John Wash
2010, digital composites, Bill & Ted
The company's first job was to produce video display graphics for the feature film 2010: Odyssey 2. Virtually all the 3D CG in the early years was produced using Cubicomp equipment. Richard was inspired by a NASA/Kodak article about CCD technology and promptly designed and built a 1k by 1k input scanner for production use. The first digital composites it was used for were on the feature film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure in 1989.
1990's film visual effects
In about 1990, the company began creating more ambitious motion picture visual effects and was then known as VIFX/Video Image. Feature film visual effects work for 20th Century Fox and other studios was wide-ranging and extensive. The work included Batman Returns, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Down Periscope, Volcano, Face/Off, The X-Files, The Relic, Star Trek: Insurrection, Blade, and Pushing Tin.
sold to 20th Century Fox
VIFX was sold to 20th Century Fox in 1996, and partners Greg McMurry and Rhonda Gunner left the company.
sold to Rhythm & Hues
In 1998, the Fox animation production Planet Ice was changed from an all-3D CG feature to being traditional cel animation. This left VIFX with an opportunity to sell itself yet again to Rhythm & Hues in the spring of 1999. About 80 people, including Richard Hollander, transferred to the new company following the merger.
purchase / merger of Blue Sky
In August of 1997 Fox/VIFX purchased Blue Sky Studios ( New York )
VIFX was co-founded by partners Richard Hollander, Greg McMurry, Rhonda Gunner, and John Wash.