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Digic Pictures is a Hungarian 3D animation studio specializing in CGI and motion capture.
Digic Pictures 
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Company InfoType 3D animation studio Genre Game cinematics, VFX productions Predecessor Games Unlimited (2001–2003) Successor Digic Pictures Founded 2002 Founder(s) Andrew G. Vajna, Rabb Sándor Alex Headquarters Budapest, Hungary Number of locations Budapest, Hungary
Los Angeles, USAProducts Game cinematics, VFX, Commercials Services production of 3D animated intro movies & trailers for computer games Employees 70-80 Parent Cinergi Interactive Divisions Digic Motion Website digicpictures.com Contents
Profile
Digic Pictures is a computer animation film studio which produces full 3D animated shorts and visual effects, in association with video games, feature films or commercial advertisements. Digic's productions have earned the studio global recognition with game trailers and intro movies which were either screened at Siggraph CAF Electronic Theater, or awarded with Siggraph's prizes.[1] In June 2011 Digic's Assassin's Creed: Revelations trailer became the most viewed video on top gamer community portals.[2][3][4]
History
The history of Digic Pictures goes back to December 2001, when the first members of the later animation company, have joined the video game developer company called Black Hole Games. Digic's task was to produce animation sequences for an RTS game developed by Black Hole. Their task was to produce five high quality full 3D cinematics -"Intro", "Outro", "Human", "Beast", "Fallen"- for the EA game called Armies of Exigo that was completed by the beginning of 2003, and was the first Hungarian project ever to make it to the selection of Electronic Theater, one of the most prestigious selection of the 2003 Siggraph Festival / Conference, that introduces the world's leading computer animation projects. Spurred on by Hungarian-born Hollywood producer and co-owner, Andrew G. Vajna, the studio got involved in the production of 60 VFX scenes of the American blockbuster "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" and impressed "even the most prestigious professional forums bringing a good name to ... the world of the developing professional Hungarian computer animation".[5] Since 2006, Digic Pictures has turned from feature films to major video game developers, and kept on producing animated shorts for gamer audiences, including intros, outros, trailers and teasers for Warhammer, Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect episodes.
Digic's MoCap branch
Digic Pictures has its own motion capture MoCap studio, Digic Motion. Based in Budapest, Digic Motion's capturing equipment consists of a 16 x 16 megapixel VICON T160[6] capturing up to 2000 frame/second.
Artistic statement
Digic's crew uses a "strong, streamlined character animation pipeline based on Alias Maya so that the more traditional artists, who had little previous exposure to computers, can work alongside the technologically experienced artists".[7]
Credits
Spread out on 1200 m2s and located on Hajogyari sziget, Budapest, Hungary, the studio has a crew of nearly 80 employees. Their latest cast officially published is of 26 May 2011[8]
Game cinematics
# Film Release date Publisher Developer Genre Runtime
(minutes)Awards 1 Assassins' Creed: Revelations E3 June 6, 2011 Ubisoft Ubisoft Montreal Trailer 3,05 Trailer released at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Voted for "Best Trailer of E3 2011" by the editors and the viewers of gametrailers.com, 1up.com, gamespot.com 2 Mass Effect 3 December 11, 2010 Electronic Arts Bioware Teaser 1,20 Teaser released at Video Game Awards. Most viewed teaser in December 2010 by gametrailers.com[9]
Listed for screening at Siggraph CAF 2011[10]
3 Dragon age 2 August 17, 2010 Electronic Arts Bioware Trailer 2,53 Trailer released at Gamescom. Listed for screening at Siggraph CAF 2011 4 Civilization V September 21, 2010 2K Games Firaxis Games Intro movie 3,33 Animated Com Award's Technology Prize at 18. International Trickfilm Festival 2011, Stuttgart, Germany[11]
Listed for screening at Siggraph CAF 2011
Best Technical Prize at Siggraph Asia 2010 Computer Animation Festival[12]
Best Post-production Award at Animago Award 2010[13]
Listed for screening at Siggraph Asia 20105 Assassin's Creed Brotherhood June 14, 2010 Ubisoft Ubisoft Montreal Intro 2,57 Listed for screening at Siggraph CAF 2011
Listed for screening at Siggraph Asia 20106 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands May 26, 2010 Ubisoft Ubisoft Quebec Intro Trailer 2,54 Listed for screening at Siggraph CAF 2010[14] 7 Assassin's Creed II. June 2, 2009 Ubisoft Ubisoft Montreal Trailer 3,57 Best Technical Prize at Siggraph Asia 2009 CAF[15]
Best Post-production Award at Animago Award 2009[16]
Most viewed trailer in June 2009 by gametrailers.com[17]8 Alpha Protocol April 15, 2009 Sega Obsidian Trailer 2,12 9 Darksiders: Wrath of War December 21, 2008 THQ Vigil Games Trailer 1,37 Listed for screening at Siggraph CAF 2006[18] 10 Darksiders: Wrath of War June 23, 2008 THQ Vigil Games Intro 3,01 11 Aliens: Colonial Marines May 13, 2008 Sega Gearbox Software Trailer 1,13 12 The Secret World series January 3, 2011 Funcom Funcom Trailer#1 1,17 13 The Secret World series January 3, 2011 Funcom Funcom Trailer#2 1,17 14 Warhammer: Battle March August 30, 2007 Namco Bandai Black Hole Entertainment Trailer 1,21 15 Universe at War Earth Assault August 21, 2007 Sega of America Petroglyph Trailer 2,37 16 Warhammer: Mark of Chaos May 30, 2006 Namco Bandai Black Hole Entertainment Intro 4,09 17 Warhammer: Mark of Chaos May 18, 2005 Namco Bandai Black Hole Entertainment Teaser 0,42 Listed for screening at Siggraph CAF 2006 18 Armies of Exigo July 1, 2004 Electronic Arts Black Hole Entertainment Outro 3,48 19 Armies of Exigo January 15, 2003 Electronic Arts Black Hole Entertainment Intro 2,37 VFX
# Film Release date Distributor Producer Genre Runtime
(minutes)Awards 1 ESET for Android November 5, 2007 MARK BBDO ESET Commercial 2 Children of Glory October 23, 2006 InterCom C2 Pictures, Flashback Productions VFX 3 Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines May 1, 2003 C2 Pictures IMF 60 VFX scenes References
- ^ Siggraph's awards and programs at http://www.siggraph.org/programs/awards
- ^ Gametrailers at http://www.gametrailers.com/video/best-trailer-best-of-e3/716602
- ^ Gamespot at http://www.gamespot.com/special-feature/best-of-e3-2011/special-achievement/index.html?page=5
- ^ 1up at http://www.1up.com/features/best-of-e3?pager.offset=2
- ^ As per Alias Systems Corporation at http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?linkID=14271593&id=6870577&siteID=123112
- ^ As featured on the Vicon website at http://www.vicon.com/products/t160.html
- ^ As termed by Ryan Kingslien, product manager at Pixologic and Master class professor at http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/digic_pictures
- ^ Members of the crew for Assassins' Creed Revelation at http://www.bitfilm.de/club/member.php?bitfilm_user=&page=fd&id=124292&fid=3942&type=&file_type=&pitch_id=
- ^ http://www.gametrailers.com/game/gametrailers-game-of-the-year/14258
- ^ http://la.siggraph.org/events/siggraph-2011-computer-animation-festival-electronic-theater-screening
- ^ http://www.itfs.de/1350/?L=0&cHash=4dab5eec644de18fb5e75360247d28a4
- ^ http://www.siggraph.org/asia2010/search/node/digic%20pictures
- ^ http://www.animago.com/en/hall-of-fame/2010/awarded-entries-2010/
- ^ http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/for_media/siggraph_2010_news_releases_release_10
- ^ http://www.siggraph.org/asia2009/for_media/releases/SAPressRelease4_CAF.pdf
- ^ http://www.festivalfocus.org/news.php?uid=584
- ^ http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/video-press-conference/microsoft
- ^ http://www.animationcenter.gr/modules/news/article.php?storyid=214&sel_lang=english
External links
Categories:- Hungarian animators
- Animation studios
- Computer graphics organizations
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