Another Voice
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- Jan 27, 2000
The Aint It Cool website has posted an excellent history of DreamQuest Imagines, which later became Disneys The Secret Lab special effects house. This was the group of people who created all the amazing CGI images for Dinosaur, 102 Dalmatians and this weekends Reign of Fire.
The group was dissolved by Disney last year as part of budget cuts. Skelton crews were left to finish Reign and another project. There was an attempt made to put together a few other projects to keep the dragon people together, but they too have just fallen victim to Disneys desire for cash without effort. Disney will have lost several hundred million dollars on their purchase of DreamQuest and subsequent investments into The Lab. An equal amount is now being paid out to Industrial Light and Magic and other outside special effects houses that will now be doing CGI work for Disney.
The entire article can be found at http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=12700 .
While the article itself is G-rated, some of the public comments in the forums on this site use language which may be considered offensive.
The group was dissolved by Disney last year as part of budget cuts. Skelton crews were left to finish Reign and another project. There was an attempt made to put together a few other projects to keep the dragon people together, but they too have just fallen victim to Disneys desire for cash without effort. Disney will have lost several hundred million dollars on their purchase of DreamQuest and subsequent investments into The Lab. An equal amount is now being paid out to Industrial Light and Magic and other outside special effects houses that will now be doing CGI work for Disney.
The entire article can be found at http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=12700 .
While the article itself is G-rated, some of the public comments in the forums on this site use language which may be considered offensive.