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How the pros are using SOFTIMAGE software

Jumanji, the story of two children and a board game that comes to life, features over 140 visual effects produced by ILM using Softimage 3D. The animal "stars" of the film include 100 bats, 3 mosquitoes, more than a dozen monkeys, a lion, a stampede of zebras, rhinoceroses, elephants and crocodiles. Just how did they do it?

BALTO

The first feature animation production to be entirely digitally inked and painted with a commercially available software...

It's more than just electronic sets or virtual characters...

it's an arena where the real world and the virtual world meet

Enter the Virtual Theater.

How do you make people believe in ghosts?
You create the impression that they are unbelievably real.

See what Industrial Light and Magic has to say about bringing ghosts to life in:

Casper enters the real world

ReBoot animation transcends anything else seen on network television today. It's the world's first 100 percent computer-animated series, telling the story of Bob, Dot and Enzo, 3D characters living in the city of Mainframe.

See what ReBoot has to say about animating in a digital environment in:

SOFTIMAGE used in TV's first 3D animation series

The Shadow

In 1930, listeners of the new radio show "The Shadow" tuned in to their collective imagination and searched their collective soul for "the evil that lurked in the heart of man" finally to discover that "only the Shadow knows ... ."

The Mask

ILM's special-effects coup, "The Mask," offers some stunning examples of Softimage 3D at work and is unique in that it shows a new level of surrealistic realism through computer graphics.