Case Study 2: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Sony Pictures Imageworks has had a lion's share of the recent big budget visual effects movies.
If you are a regular moviegoer, the list of titles that the digital production company has worked on will be very familiar; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Cast Away, Charlie's Angels, Hollow Man, Contact, Godzilla and Starship Troopers, not to mention the upcoming and highly anticipated Spider-Man, Stuart Little 2 and Charlie's Angels 2. Imageworks will also embark on its first all Computer Graphics film, AstroBoy, in 2002.
These productions push the limits of visual effects techniques and test the limits of today's computer technologies. Sony Picture Imageworks works hard to stay on top of the technology ...
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