Digital Productions

Digital Productions was a computer animation company in Los Angeles, California.
Jim Henson got in touch with Digital Productions in the early 1980s to discuss computer generated backgrounds for the proposed series Starboppers.Jim Henson's Red Book - 5/21/1983 – ‘Meeting with Digital Productions.’
Henson collaborated with Digital Productions in 1986 to produce the opening title sequence for Labyrinth, featuring a computer animated owl flying back and forth, rippling a pool of water. The sequence was created by animators Larry Yaeger and Bill Kroyer,A Brief, Early History of Computer Graphics in Film and marked the first use of a realistic CGI animal in a film.Stikky Media Blog The opening sequence of Labyrinth won its animators the NCGA Best Computer Animation award of 1986.Larry Yaeger Official Website
Digital Productions was also involved in creating a computer generated Kermit the Frog head, which was incorporated into plans for The Muppet Institute of Technology.Michael Frith, quoted in personal communication between G. Harding and Karen Falk. March 9, 2017. While this project did not come to fruition, the Kermit head would appear briefly during a montage in the Jim Henson Hour episode "Secrets of the Muppets".
==See also==
*Pacific Data Images
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Category:Production Companies