Digital Domain

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Digital Domain is a computer graphics company located in Venice, California that provides visual effects for film, commercials and music videos. It is partly owned by IBM, Cox Communications and director James Cameron. James Cameron and Stan Winston severed their working relationship with Digital Domain, and resigned from its board of directors, because of a perceived conflict of interest when Digital Domain expanded its charter to include live action film development and production. In 2003, Digital Domain CEO Scott Ross produced Secondhand Lions at Digital Domain for New Line Cinema.

The company began producing visual effects in 1993, its first three films being True Lies, Interview with the Vampire and Color of Night in 1994. It has produced effects for more than 40 films including Apollo 13, Armageddon, The Fifth Element, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Titanic, and What Dreams May Come. More recent films include The Day After Tomorrow and I, Robot and Stealth.

In 2002, the company launched a subsidiary to market and distribute its Academy Award-winning compositing software, Nuke. The move was partially motivated by Apple's acquisition of a similar program, Shake.

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