• timbox129
    • 5 years 8 months ago
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    		 Have anyone ever heard of the Secret Lab? That was Disney's short-lived, now-defunct visual effects facility. It was, in fact, on November 1999, a merger between Walt Disney Feature Animation Northside and Dream Quest Images, a VFX facility that began life in the '80's, and was bought by Disney in May 1996. It was the company that made Disney's ill-recieved computer animated feature film from 2000, Dinosaur, one of the first serious attempts to realize a blend of all-digital characters with live action backgrounds for film. Disney's Dinosaur was also perhaps one of the most problematic milestones in Visual Effects and Animation history.

    Paula Parisi once said that "It's an auspicious digital debut from the great grandaddy of animation. Now, the firm add another notch to Hollywood history, staking out its turf on the silicon frontier that is the future of the medium."

    At the time of Disney's Dinosaur's release on May 19, 2000, more than 400 artists at The Secret Lab, or TSL for short, were going to produce CGI character animation, Visual Effects for live action films (either Disney or non-Disney) and even CGI animated features. But, unabled to overcome the losses incurred by Dinosaur, The Secret Lab folded, or, closed its doors, or gone bankrupt, in 2001, and faded into obscurity.

    Well, if I ever make Dinosaurs: An Epic Prehistoric Tale and/or Dexter's Odyssey and/or other projects, or so, I hope that I will be going to revive and resurrect The Secret Lab as my own Visual Effects company, since there are no visual effects and/or animation facility in Maryland, my home state. Once I revive the Secret Lab (TSL) as my own visual effects company, I'm gonna locate its new facility to an empty, abandoned building that is once the Wal-Mart at Richie Highway in Glen Burnie or so.

    Disney's The Secret Lab visual effects department may be long gone for now, but I will resurrect TSL, aka, The Secret Lab one day, very, very soon indeed.

    P.S. If I resurrect the Secret Lab as my own VFX company, I wanted TSL, if I resurrect it, to be Maryland's answer to Visual Effects companies like Industrial Light and Magic, Digital Domain, Weta Workshop/Digital, Tippett Studio, etc., or so.
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