Vision Crew Unlimited

Infobox_Company
company_name = Vision Crew Unlimited
company_
company_type = Privately held company
foundation = 1994
location = Los Angeles, California, USA
key_people = Evan Jacobs, Jon Warren, Douglas Miller
num_employees = 20-50
industry = Visual Effects, CGI
dissolved = 2002
homepage = [http://www.visioncrew.com/ VisionCrew.com]

Vision Crew Unlimited (VCU) was a motion picture and TV commercial visual effects company founded in 1994 by visual effects artists Evan Jacobs, Jon Warren and Douglas Miller. [Citation| last=Goldrich| first=Robert| title=Visual Effects House Wraps Its First Spot: Coke For CAA| newspaper=Shoot magazine| pages=1| year=1995| date=August 1995| url=http://www.visioncrew.com/Press/shootformation.htm] The company later expanded into a full service visual effects firm.

In 1996, VCU contributed miniature effects to James Cameron's film "Titanic". While they were initially hired as a subcontractor to lead effects house Digital Domain, VCU was ultimately hired directly by 20th Century Fox to build miniatures for the engine room sequence as well. [cite web| title =VIFX jumps aboard project to add convincing details.| work =ASC.com| publisher =American Society of Cinematographers| url =http://www.theasc.com/magazine/dec97/titanic/sb/pg1.htm| accessdate =2007-06-11] [cite web| last =Speier| first =Michael| title =Coming to the Aid of a Sinking Ship| work =DigitalContentProducer.com| publisher =Penton Media| date =1997-07-01| url =http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mag/video_coming_aid_sinking| accessdate =2007-06-11] [cite web| title = Vision Crew Unlimited artisans help Digital Domain lay scale-model keels for TITANIC| work =DigitalContentProducer.com| publisher =Penton Media| url =http://www.theasc.com/magazine/dec97/titanic/sb/pg1.htm| accessdate =2007-06-11] In an interesting coincidence later that same year, the company was contracted to work on a CBS TV miniseries with the same name. [Cite web| last= Yanover| first=Neal| title=That Sinking Feeling| work=Variety On Production| format=reprint| date=1997-07-01| url=http://www.visioncrew.com/Press/variety.htm]

While the company worked on many feature films, they were much more prolific in the television commercial market, and worked on over forty spots in eight years. [Cite news| last=Nightingale| first=Margot| title=New Effects Studio| work=Screen: The Chicago Production Weekly| page=46| date=1995-08-01] Their work was featured in ads for the majority of car brandscite news| last= Martel| first=William| title=Simon says - visual effects artist Simon Brewster| work=Shoot Magazine| format=reprint| date=1998-12-04| url=http://www.visioncrew.com/Press/lexus-excerpt.htm| accessdate=2007-06-11] as well as Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, and Geico.

In 1998, Jacobs and John Hoffman were nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries representing VCU's work on HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon".

Vision Crew closed in April 2002. The company attributed its shutdown to a difficult business climate and the founders' interest in pursuing other projects and opportunities. [cite press release| title =Vision Crew Unlimited Closes Its Doors| publisher =VFXPro| date =2002-05-07| url =http://www.visioncrew.com/Press/Closure.html| accessdate =2007-06-11]

Credits

Feature films

*"The Mummy"
*"Dinosaur"
*"Jack Frost"
*"Armageddon"
*"Species II"
*""
*"Flubber"
*"Dante's Peak"
*"The Fifth Element"
*"Titanic (1997 film)"
*"The Arrival"
*"Kazaam"
*"Space Jam"
*"Sometimes They Come Back...Again"

Episodic and long-form television

*"Monday Night Football" graphics
*"" episode "The Killing Game"
*"From The Earth To The Moon"
*"The Outer Limits" "To Tell the Truth"
*"Tower of Terror"
*"Tempting Fate"
*"A Wing and a Prayer"
*"Titanic (miniseries"

Television commercials

References

External links

[http://www.visioncrew.com Official Site]