Meteor Studios
Meteor Studios was a Canadian production company based in Montreal that worked in computer animation for many films and TV series. Managed by a director based in Los Angeles, California, who specialized in HD animation, the company was known for "[creating] realistic CG on TV budgets".[1] Its parent company was Discovery Communications.[1]
Methods[edit]
Meteor Studios saved on costs by using "previsualization" tools to produce test composites in the field after each shot.[2] Rather than waiting until post-production to see how the computer-generated and drawn elements worked together with the actual background and actors, the director was able to assess immediately whether the desired shots had been captured or not, and minimize film crew costs.[2]
Projects[edit]
Its highly rated works included When Dinosaurs Roamed America on the Discovery Channel, which had more than 500 scenes integrating CG into live-action HD.[1] For the historical action movie 300, Meteor Studios posted 250 shots to portray liquids, including a large amount of spraying blood.[3]
In 2007, Playback reported that Meteor Studios was venturing into 3D VFX for the first time, for Journey to the Center of the Earth to be released the following year.[4]
Bankruptcy[edit]
The studios closed in November 2007 and filed for bankruptcy.[5][6] In September 2009, 130 mainly Canadian artists accepted an offer to recoup 70 percent of compensation owed to them by Discovery Trademark Holding Co. Inc. and Evergreen Digital LLC.[5]
Filmography[edit]
- Catwoman (2004)
- Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
- Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
- Fantastic Four (2005)
- Final Destination 3 (2006)
- Slither (2006)
- 300 (2006)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Television[edit]
- When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001)
- Valley of the T-Rex (2001)
- Engineering the Impossible (2002)
- Chasing Giants: On the Trail of the Giant Squid (2002)
- What Killed the Mega Beasts? (2002)
- Before We Ruled the Earth (2003)
- Extreme Engineering (2003)
- Giant Monsters (2003)
- Dinosaur Planet (2003)
- The Dinosaur Feather Mystery (2004)
- Alien Planet (2005)
- Dino Lab (2006)
- T. rex: New Science, New Beast (2006)
- Baby Mammoth (2007)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wolff, Ellen (July 2002). "Meteor Studios". Millimeter. 30 (7). pp. 18–22. Retrieved 2022-10-28 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Whitney, Daisy (June 10, 2002). "Production getting more productive". Electronic Media. 21 (23). Chicago. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-10-28 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ Davidson, Sean (March 6, 2006). "Meteor hits 300". Playback: Canada's Broadcast and Production Journal. p. 18. Retrieved 2022-10-28 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ Stewart, Lianne (April 30, 2007). "How did they do that? Meteor Journeys deep into 3D". Playback: Canada's Broadcast and Production Journal. p. 31. Retrieved 2022-10-28 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 King, Mike (2009). "Special-effects artists accept pay deal". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- ↑ "Ex-Meteor Studios workers seek pay". Playback Online. July 21, 2008. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
External links[edit]
- "Meteor Studios" (2002) on DigitalContentProducer.com (archived)
This article "Meteor Studios" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Meteor Studios. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
|
This page exists already on Wikipedia. |
