Rhythm & Hues Rhythm and Hues , also credited as Rhythm & Hues , Inc . , Rhythm & Hues Studios , and currently known as Rhythm & Hues Studios , Inc . , was a Los Angeles - based company that specialized in creating , in particular by using the , at the time of its founding , fledgling technique of CGI . The company was founded in 1987 by six ex - employees of Robert Abel & Associates , after the latter went out of business earlier that year . The founding members were , Keith Goldfarb , Pauline Ts ' o , John Hughes , Charles Gibson , Frank Wuts and Cliff Boulé , the first three still running the company by 2012 . Having worked on various productions of " Star Trek " in their early years , the best known effect they constructed for the franchise , was both the exterior as well as the interior of the Bajoran wormhole for ( 1992 ) , which was designed by Michael Gibson ( not related to the co - founder ) , and took fourteen weeks to complete . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol 24 # 3 / 4 , p . 124 ) They also worked on the episode ( 1991 ) and " " ( 1998 ) , for which the company designed and created part of the CGI sequences of ride . The CGI model of the Klingon Bird - of - Prey , they created for the ride , was later appropriated by the studio , for use in the later seasons of the " Deep Space Nine " television series . On " Galaxy ' s Child " , their first " Star Trek " contribution , they received credit as Rhythm & Hues , Inc . for creating the computer animation segments of the spaceborne lifeforms . In the 1990s , the company worked on popular films such as " Babe " ( 1995 ) , " Spawn " ( 1997 ) , " Babe : Pig in the City " ( 1998 ) , " The Green Mile " ( 1999 ) , " End of Days " ( 1999 ) , " Stuart Little " ( 1999 ) and " X - Men " ( 2000 ) . They continued their success into the 2000s , and chalked up an impressive list of credits , having worked on productions like , " Superman Returns " , " The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe " , " The Fellowship of the Ring " , " The Return of the King " , " X2 " , " Serenity " , " X - Men : The Last Stand " , " Men in Black II " , " Stuart Little 2 " , " Happy Feet " , " Charlotte ' s Web " , " Night at the Museum " , " Evan Almighty " , " The Golden Compass " , " Alvin & The Chipmunks " , " The Incredible Hulk " , " The Mummy : Tomb of the Dragon Emperor " , " Fast & Furious " , " Night at the Museum : Battle of the Smithsonian " , " Land of the lost " , " Aliens In The Attic " , " The Time Travler ' s Wife " , " Percy Jackson & The Olympians : The Lightning Thief " , " Hot Tub Time Machine " , " Marmaduke " , " The A - Team " , " Charlie St . Cloud " , " Knight & Day " , " Yogi Bear " , " Red Riding Hood " , " Hop " , " X - Men : First Class " & " Mr . Popper ' s Penguins " . A highly successful company , Rhythm & Hues ' services were in high demand , and its latest projects were among others " 300 : Rise of an Empire " ( 2013 ) and " Kazorn " ( 2014 ) . The company has seen a steady growth over the decades , acquiring in 1999 the VIFX half of Blue Sky / VIFX ( directly after that company ' s involvement with ) , and did eventually had branches in Mumbai and Hyderabad ( India ) , Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia ) , Vancouver ( Canada ) and Koahsiung ( Taiwan ) . However , after 2010 , Rhythm & Hues ' fortunes too started to decline , due to the economic crisis in general , and the severely increased competition from foreign effects houses in particular , the motion picture industry found it self in . As it turned out Rhythm ' s Achilles ' heel was its heavy dependence for the bulk of their business on two major studios only , Fox and Universal Studios . The reversal of those studios ' fortunes , meant also the rapid decline of Rhythm & Hues as its working capital ran out fast . As if to underscore the crisis the US - based visual effects industry was in by 2012 , a equity investment deal with the holding company of Digital Domain fell through in the fall of 2012 , as the latter announced its own bankruptcy on 11 September 2012 . Despite having provided the Academy Award winning visual effects for the movie " The Life of Pi " ( 2012 ) , the company , by then employing 1 , 400 people , finally filed for bankruptcy in February 2013 . In March 2013 , the company was reported to have received an emergency capital injection by major Hollywood studios to keep it afloat in anticipation of a take - over by an Indian company . The Indian company turned out to be 34x118 Holdings , LLC , the Indian operating division of US held Prana Studios , which acquired Rhythm & Hues on 29 March 2013 for a reported $ 30 million . In the process , Rhythm & Hues was broken up , its US headquarters sold off to real estate developers , and its Malaysian subsidiary split off as a fully independent stand - alone company , while about a quarter of its employees were immediately laid off . Staff . The wormhole staff ( " " , p . 240 ) : " The Klingon Encounter " ride staff :