| rdfs:comment | - Foundation Imaging est une société de production d'effets spéciaux créée en 1992 et dirigée par Ron Thornton et Paul Bryant. Elle a travaillé sur plusieurs productions Star Trek. Foundation Imaging ferma ses portes peu après la fin de la permière saison d’Enterprise, et vendit ses immobilisations aux enchères le 12 décembre 2002. Plusieurs de ses anciens employés se sont retrouvés chez Eden FX.
- Foundation Imaging was a CGI visual effects studio, a computer animation studio, and a post-production editing facility. They did work on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (series five finale, seasons six thru seven), Star Trek: Voyager (seasons three thru seven), Star Trek: Enterprise (season one), and the DVD director's edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The company was dissolved in 2002.
- According to CEO Ron Thornton, Warner Brothers decided not to renew Foundation for Babylon 5 and instead decided to go in-house for the VFX, to which end Executive Producer Douglas Netter formed the new effects house Netter Digital Entertainment (NDE), which (from 1995 onward) became the sole supplier of CGI for the Babylon 5 franchise. This left Foundation in a precarious situation, as Thornton recalled; "It was only after Babylon 5 decided not to renew us that I turned around to them [meaning Star Trek: Voyager's producers] and basically begged for work. We were in such dire straits; I had to lay everybody off – and I never thought that was going to happen – but Voyager was really wonderful and started coming in with stuff." It was former Foundation employee Mitch Suskin, now working for
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| abstract | - Foundation Imaging est une société de production d'effets spéciaux créée en 1992 et dirigée par Ron Thornton et Paul Bryant. Elle a travaillé sur plusieurs productions Star Trek. Foundation Imaging ferma ses portes peu après la fin de la permière saison d’Enterprise, et vendit ses immobilisations aux enchères le 12 décembre 2002. Plusieurs de ses anciens employés se sont retrouvés chez Eden FX.
- Foundation Imaging was a CGI visual effects studio, a computer animation studio, and a post-production editing facility. They did work on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (series five finale, seasons six thru seven), Star Trek: Voyager (seasons three thru seven), Star Trek: Enterprise (season one), and the DVD director's edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The company was dissolved in 2002.
- According to CEO Ron Thornton, Warner Brothers decided not to renew Foundation for Babylon 5 and instead decided to go in-house for the VFX, to which end Executive Producer Douglas Netter formed the new effects house Netter Digital Entertainment (NDE), which (from 1995 onward) became the sole supplier of CGI for the Babylon 5 franchise. This left Foundation in a precarious situation, as Thornton recalled; "It was only after Babylon 5 decided not to renew us that I turned around to them [meaning Star Trek: Voyager's producers] and basically begged for work. We were in such dire straits; I had to lay everybody off – and I never thought that was going to happen – but Voyager was really wonderful and started coming in with stuff." It was former Foundation employee Mitch Suskin, now working for Voyager, who introduced the company to the producers of the show, which led to the association of the company with the Star Trek franchise. A grateful Thornton has stated in this respect, "When Babylon 5 decided they were going to do it on their own, it was absolutely devastating, but it ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine issue 16, pp. 35, 37) The move over to Star Trek in 1996 prompted some of the original employees to split off from Foundation and join Netter's company. Outside Star Trek and Babylon 5, the company worked as digital effects supplier on the movies The Jackal (1997 ), SubZero (1998 ), Today's Life, Max Steel, They Crawl, Shu shan zheng zhuan, and Twisted Metal: Black (the latter five all in 2001 ). Television productions the company worked on, in the same capacity, included the animated series Skeleton Warriors (1994 –1995) and Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999 ), as well as the television movies Project Viper, Superfire (both 2002 ) and The Extreme Team (2003 ). In later years, the company operated its own instructional facility, the Foundation Institute, to hone and further the skills of new and existing employees alike. One of its instructors at that time was Randy Sharp, who, while not during his time at Foundation Imaging, was yet to work on Star Trek later on. [1] Foundation Imaging closed its doors in the summer of 2002, shortly after the end of season one of Star Trek: Enterprise and had its assets sold in an auction on 12 December 2002 (as may be seen at Brian Testo Associates, LLC(X) website). Their website, foundation-i.com, is no longer functional, and visitors to the site are redirected to a domain name holding company. Former Visual Effects Supervisor Adam Lebowitz has later reported that the entirety of Foundation's work was left on the servers when they were auctioned off, and that no formal back-ups were preserved by the copyright holding entities, including CBS Television Studios/Paramount Pictures. [2] Upon closure of Foundation, a number of employees moved over to then-recently-formed Eden FX. Despite its relatively short, eleven year, lifespan, Foundation Imaging has been a signature innovative and influential contributor to the way visual effects are produced for television productions, as was evidenced by the slew of visual effects Emmy Award wins and nominations Foundation employees garnered during the Babylon 5 and Star Trek years. The vast majority of persons who each served as a member of Foundation's staff has, at the very least, one nomination credited to his or her name, stemming from that period in time.
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