Digital Domain
Digital Domain (website here) is a Californian-based effects studio. Originally, it was a collaboration between James Cameron, Stan Winston and former head of ILM Scott Ross in 1994. All three eventually left the company. The company has provided CG and miniature work[1] for over sixty films, multiple commercials and over a dozen games.
In 2006, an affiliate company called Wyndcrest Holdings, LLC bought out the company. This means that yes, Michael Bay owns the studio.
Films and other projects Digital Domain have worked on include:
- Two Thousand Twelve
- A Beautiful Mind
- Apollo 13
- Armageddon
- Bulletstorm
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The Fifth Element
- Fight Club
- Every Gears of War Commercial (using the actual Game Engine)
- The Golden Compass
- Halo 3: "Starry Night" commercial
- Lake Placid
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Killzone 3
- Pirates of The Caribbean: At Worlds End
- Real Steel
- Secondhand Lions (Also produced film)
- Speed Racer (were the leads in developing the software and cars)
- Star Trek
- Thor
- Titanic
- The Transformers Films
- Transformers Fall of Cybertron (VGA World Premiere Trailer)
- Tron: Legacy
- True Lies (their first project)
- The Fake Shemping of Tupac Shakur at the 2012 edition of the Coachella festival.
- What Dreams May Come
- X-Men and X-Men: First Class
Tropes the company exhibits:
- Animesque: Used in a recent Dodge commercial
- Conspicuous CG: Possibly invoked in Lake Placid, Tron: Legacy and Speed Racer, played straight in The Golden Compass
- ↑ yes, you read it correctly. Titanic and The Fifth Element mainly.