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Pacific Data Images (PDI) was an American visual effects and computer animation production company based in Redwood City, California, that was bought by DreamWorks SKG in 2000. It was renamed PDI/DreamWorks and was owned by DreamWorks Animation .
PDI (originally an initialism for Pacific Data Images and also known as PDI/DreamWorks) was an American computer animated production company that was bought by DreamWorks SKG in 2000. and became half of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., the public company formed by uniting PDI and the feature...
May 2, 2024 · Pacific Data Images was founded in 1980 by Carl Rosendahl in Sunnyvale, California (a suburb of Silicon Valley and San Francisco); his partners Richard Chuang and Glenn Entis wrote the company's computer software one year later on a DEC PDP-11/44, which transitioned into a DEC VAX-11/780, which was to be a part of the studio's goal to ...
Pacific Data Images ( PDI ) Established Date: Aug. 11, 1980. Is Closed: Jan. 30, 2015. Projects. People. Organizations. Events. Incorporated on August 11th 1980 by Carl Rosendahl, PDI originally began in a small office in Los Altos. Carl grew up in LA and graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1979.
Oct 27, 2020 · Seeking a way to combine his passions for filmmaking and technology, he founded Pacific Data Images (PDI) in 1980. PDI became one of the pioneering and highly innovative creators of computer animation for film and television.
Pacific Data Images (PDI) was an American computer animation production company that was bought by DreamWorks SKG in 2000. It was renamed PDI/DreamWorks and was owned by DreamWorks Animation. Founded in 1980 by Carl Rosendahl, PDI was one of the pioneers of computer animation.
Pacific Data Images (PDI) was started in Los Altos, California in 1980, by Carl Rosendahl. He was soon joined by Richard Chuang (1981) and Glenn Entis (1982) and they moved to Sunnyvale. Frame from early PDI video reel.
