Digital Domain
Founded Year: 1993
Digital Domain - Showreel 2009
Founded in 1993 by film industry icons, Digital Domain is an Academy Award®-winning digital production studio focused on visual effects for feature film and advertising production. Among its 80 film credits are three features that were awarded the Oscar® for visual effects, including "Titanic," "What Dreams May Come" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." A creative giant in advertising, Digital Domain has earned scores of Clio, AICP and Cannes Lion awards for some of the world?s most memorable spots. The studio works with top directors and has become renowned for its technical innovation, claiming four Scientific & Technical Achievement Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Digital Domain is charging forward with its pioneering work in photo-real digital characters as well as projects that cross traditional media boundaries. The company is based in Venice, California and recently opened a studio in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Specialties
visual effects, animation, feature film, movies, commercials, advertising, production
Specialties
visual effects, animation, feature film, movies, commercials, advertising, production
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Kelly Port
(1997 - 2012)
Visual Effects Supervisor
Plate Supervisor
Compositor
Digital Effects Supervisor
Digital Paraphernalia Supervisor
Nikos Kalaitzidis
(1997 - 2012)
Cg Supervisor
Digital Effects Supervisor
Vfx Sequence Supervisor
Effects Supervisor
Digital Ocean Artist
Darren Poe
(1997 - 2011)
Digital Effects Supervisor
Digital Compositor
Compositing Supervisor
Digital Ocean Artist
Digital Artist
Bryan Grill
(1997 - 2009)
Visual Effects Supervisor
Digital Effects Supervisor
Lead Compositor
Digital Compositing Supervisor
Scott Edelstein
(2004 - 2013)
3d Environments Lead
3d Artist
Digital Environment Lead
Digital Artist
3d Environments Artist
On-set Data Collection
On-set Supervisor
3d Integration
3d Integration Lead
3d Integration Artist
3d Integration Supervisor
On-set Data Integration
Justin van der Lek
(2008 - 2013)
On-set Environments Artist
3d Environments Lead
Digital Artist
3d Environments
Digital Compositor
3d Integration
Blake Sweeney
(2008 - 2011)
Lead Lighting Artist
Visual Effects
Look Development Lead
Technical Director
Wei Zheng
(2007 - 2010)
Popular Software:
nuke
zbrush
maya
houdini
v-ray
Popular Tasks:
set extension
matte paintings
cg creatures
cg stadium
cg dust
digital snow
hydraulic fluid simulations
simulcam
virtual environments
explosions
digital environments
cg debris
Digital Matte Painter
Matte Painting Supervisor
Matte Painting Lead
Visual Effects
Movies
Paradise Lost (2012) 47 Ronin (2012) Ender's Game (2013) Iron Man 3 (2013) Oblivion (2013) G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation (2012) Jack the Giant Killer (2013) The Watch (2012) The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) Rock of Ages (2012) The Avengers (2012) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2011) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Real Steel (2011) Fright Night (2011) Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) X-Men: First Class (2011) Thor (2011) TRON: Legacy (2010) The A-Team (2010) Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) 2012 (2009) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) Star Trek (2009) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) Speed Racer (2008) Jumper (2008) The Golden Compass (2007) Transformers (2007) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) Zodiac (2007) Zoom (2006) My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) Aeon Flux (2005) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) I, Robot (2004) The Day After Tomorrow (2004) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) X-Men (2000) Fight Club (1999) Armageddon (1998) Titanic (1997) The Fifth Element (1997)News
December 11th, 2012
A court martial sends a veteran soldier to a distant planet, where he has to destroy the remains of an alien race. The arrival of an unexpected traveler causes him to question what he knows about the planet, his mission, and himself.
September 20th, 2012
Take a look at the work Digital Domain did on Rock of Ages, lots of Mattepainting.
September 11th, 2012
Searchlight Capital acquires Digital Domain.
August 16th, 2012
Digital Domain helps The Watch defend Earth against alien invasion.
August 6th, 2012
VFX supervisor Kelly Port talks about the visual effects Digital Domain did on The Watch.
July 12th, 2012
Visual Effects Supervisor Jay Barton talks about the VFX Digital Domain did for Rock of Ages.
July 11th, 2012
This issue covers The Avengers, Prometheus, Battleship and Snow White and the Huntsman.
June 28th, 2012
In this video you can see the work Digital Domain did to bring to life to Virtual 2Pac for the Coachella festival.
May 9th, 2012
A must see!
April 26th, 2012
Lead Lighting Artist Blake Sweeney tells us all about how Digital Domain used V-Ray to light and render all the action on Real Steel.
January 17th, 2012
The Foundry has put together an impressive reel with footage from different tv spots.
January 17th, 2012
An article about the work done by Blur Studio, Digital Domain and Method Studios on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
January 8th, 2012
A great selection of tv spots by fxguide.
December 20th, 2011
it covers Real Steel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Hugo and The Tree of Life.
December 18th, 2011
A very in-depth article about the art of destruction in visual effects by Mike Seymour.
December 16th, 2011
Live-action modern retelling of the classic fairy tale in which a young farmer leads leads an expedition into a realm inhabited by giants in a quest to rescue a kidnapped princess.
December 12th, 2011
The G.I. Joe team faces off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence.
December 9th, 2011
Erick Nash talks about the Visual Effects on Real Steel.
November 28th, 2011
Justin is celebrating his 4 years at Digital Domain as an Environments and Composting artist.
November 21st, 2011
Digital Domain talks about their VFXs on Real Steel.
October 19th, 2011
The NUKE MARI Bridge using footage from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
October 18th, 2011
A nice article by The Daily about how Digital Domain borrowed technology from Avatar.
October 17th, 2011
An Animation World Network article about the visual effects by Digital Domain and Giant Studios.
October 14th, 2011
Very in depth article about the movie Real Steel by fxguide.
September 22nd, 2011
Take a look at the first Trailer of the new David Fincher movie.
September 1st, 2011
Digital Domain web site had a nice makeup with more info from their new movies.
August 22nd, 2011
The clips are amazing!
August 22nd, 2011
An AWN article about the visual effects in Fright Night.
July 20th, 2011
Digital Domain's Miguel Ortega and Minoru Sasaki turn to MARI when creating the visual effects for blockbuster Thor...
July 14th, 2011
Ian Failes, from fxguide, bring us this interesting article about the vfx done by Digital Domain.
June 23rd, 2011
Part of his job involves the sequence of the Frost Giants.
June 22nd, 2011
Kelly Port, VFX Supervisor of Digital Domain, talks with Vincent Frei about his work in Thor.
June 16th, 2011
In this amazing article fxguide covers the work made by all major vendors.
April 29th, 2011
The work done by Digital Domain and ILM looks amazing!
April 28th, 2011
More of the plot is reveal in this trailer.
February 21st, 2011
Learn all you need to know about KATANA inside these documents.
February 18th, 2011
A disabled medical student discovers that his alter ego is the Norse warrior god of thunder, Thor.
February 15th, 2011
Take a look at this interesting documentary about the story of CG characters.
February 10th, 2011
Sequel to the popular franchise traces the early years of archenemies Professor X and Magneto as they discover their powers for the first time
February 7th, 2011
A boxing drama set in the near-future where 2,000-pound robots that look like humans do battle.
January 23rd, 2011
AWN take a look at this year's VFX Oscar contenders.
January 20th, 2011
Take a look at the amazing work made by Digital Domain.
January 1st, 2010
The extraordinary work of Digital Domain.
March 12th, 2007
D2 Software's Nuke
August 14th, 2005
Houdini helps Digital Domain manage more than 650 shots such as heat signatures, lightning storms and engine thruster effects for the highly anticipated summer blockbuster.
May 23rd, 2005
Digital Domain relaunches website
