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Founded in 1989 by Sam Nicholson, a distinguished cinematographer and special visual effects supervisor and producer, Stargate Studios was conceived as a high tech production company offering visual effects and production services to the film and television industries. |
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Sam Nicholson, ASC Founder & CEO DP / VFX Supervisor Darren Frankel President James Riley EVP, Development VFX Supervisor/Producer Joseph Meier, PhD Chief Technology Officer Chris Martin Digital Compositing Supervisor Adalberto Lopez 3D Supervisor Mark Spatny Supervising Producer VFX Supervisor/Producer |
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STARGATE STUDIOS WINS PRIMETIME EMMY AWARD FOR HEROES
The budget has gone into the spacecraft -- the constructed interiors, the computer-generated exteriors -- and all the outer space, which looks good enough that you never think about it not being real.
If human beings want to visit the other planets in the solar system, what would the ship look like? What technologies would be required? Executive producers Jim Parriott and Michael Edelstein asked these questions of themselves and NASA to create the environment for the space travel drama Defying Gravity.
Stargate Studios is proud to have received a Primetime Emmy Nomination for the 2008-2009 television season.
Stargate Studios is proud to have received three Visual Effects Society Nominations for the 2009 VES Awards.
After 18 long months off the air, 24 finally returned to television for its seventh season on Sunday with a blistering two-night, four-hour premiere. For its first six years, 24 took place and was shot in and around L.A. But coming off a disappointing sixth season, FOX and the 24 series exec producers decided it was time to look for a way to freshen up the series by giving former CTU agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) a new backdrop to fight domestic terrorism.
Mark Spatny, Supervising Producer for Stargate Films, acknowledges that it wasn't the most complex visual effects sequence of the show (that would be Season 3's cleaving of Tokyo—more on that, below), but there are scenes in Heroes' first season that contain a confounding mix of practical and virtual, including an episode in which Claire (played by Hayden Panettierre) battles a radioactive man (no, not The Simpson's comic book character) who burns her to a crisp. (If you're interested, check out Heroes Monday nights at 9:00 p.m. on NBC.) "We had originally planned to do it practically, with quick cuts, and several Claire look-a-likes in special effects make-up," Mark recounts. "First, we had to get Hayden's make-up right. We work with a great special effects make-up company and they know the difference between, for instance, radiation and electrical burns. They designed a look for Hayden with a shading technique for burned skin that would flake off, and then applied that look to her. She sat in make-up for eight hours!" Once the "Crispy Claire" look was established, the make-up team applied various stages of the look to the Claire look-alikes.
Tara Bennett talks to showrunner and exec producer Gary Scott Thompson and Stargate Digital's Sam Nicholson about updating the much-loved franchise for a tech-savvy audience. With the success of the contemporized reboot of NBC's Knight Rider as a two-hour movie event last spring, Michael Knight (Justin Bruening) and KITT are now back for weekly adventures starting Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. on NBC.
Tara Bennett talks to Heroes vfx producer Mark Spatny about the explosion of awesome work in the series' new season. Sometimes a sophomore slump is useful. With Heroes, critics and fans groused loudly that its second season was below the standards set by year one. Whether it was too slow moving or there were too many characters, it seems like every piece of the show became a target. But then the WGA strike hit, giving the creative team a chance to assess what was right and wrong. While the strike was resolved in the spring, NBC decided Heroes would stay off the air and instead return with a fresh new season (and volume) this month.
STARGATE STUDIOS NOMINATED FOR PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS
Stargate Studios is proud to have received two Primetime Emmy Nominations for the 2007-2008 television season.
How the soap world has changed! When All My Children's Angie and Jesse (Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams) got married 25 years ago, it was a simply little affair with a justice of the peace. But their remarriage (which begins airing May 21) is a badass überevent complete with a kidnapped bride, a shooting and emergency surgery (Tad), a heavenly apparition (Dixie), a musical performance by Ne-Yo and state-of-the-art effects by Stargate Digital. That's the company that makes the Petrelli brothers fly on Heroes and created the epic ferryboat disaster on Grey's Anatomy.
Tara Bennett talks Eli Stone with Stargate Digital's Sam Nicholson. That means fire-breathing dragons, collapsing The Golden Gate Bridge, going to the Himalayas and shooting George Michael on greenscreen.
By ERIC A. TAUB When a helicopter blade severed Dr. Robert Romano's arm in an episode this season of ''ER,'' many viewers might have correctly assumed it was just another computer-generated special effect.
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