Changes: Santa Barbara Studios

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Template:Realworld Santa Barbara Studios, or SBS for short, was a CGI visual effects company, founded by John Grower in 1990, and located in Santa Barbara, CA. The company's contributions to Star Trek included the bottle sequence during the christening of the USS Enterprise-B in Star Trek Generations (Cinefex, issue 61, p. 65), as well as the space-based visual effects for Star Trek: Insurrection, where they worked alongside Blue Sky/VIFX. They also created the D'Arsay archive and comet effects for TNG: "Masks" (their first contributions to Star Trek) and the comet effects for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series title sequence. Subsequently they worked with Dan Curry on the spatial effects in the main title sequence for Star Trek: Voyager and additional CGI effects for the first two seasons.

The CGI for Voyager's title sequence was created by using the company's own in-house developed software called Dynamation which earned developer Jim Hourihan an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 1996.[1]

Outside Star Trek, the company has worked on productions like Spawn (1997), An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), Ghosts of Mars (2001), and K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) as well as the critically acclaimed documentary series 500 Nations (1995).

SBS apparently ceased its existence shortly after 2002, as no website is available of the company and no further credits are known, whereas founder Grower has accumulated further credits outside the SBS framework.

Staff

Curtis Breber
Phil Brock
Eric DeJong
Axel Dirksen
Bruce Jones - Executive Producer
Janet Grower
John Grower - CEO/Effects Supervisor
Eric Guaglione - Animation Supervisor
Diane Holland
Jim Hourihan
Bill Kovacs
Richard Kriegler - Art Director/Digital Matte Painter
Peter Lloyd
Rick McDonald
Ron Moreland - Technical Director
Craig Mullins
Matt Rhodes - R&D
Will Rivera
Eric Saindon - Lead Modeler
James Strauss - Animation Supervisor
Kathi Sumec
Pete Travers [2]
Mark Wendell - Animator
Kelly Wilcox Travers [3]

External link

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Company overview

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-'''Santa Barbara Studios'''  is a company which produced [[comet]] effects for ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. They also worked with [[Dan Curry]] on the main title sequence for ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''.
+'''Santa Barbara Studios''', or '''SBS''' for short,  was a [[CGI]] visual effects company, founded by [[John Grower]] in {{y|1990}}, and located in Santa Barbara, CA. The company's contributions to ''Star Trek'' included the bottle sequence during the christening of the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-B|-B}} in {{film|7}} (''[[Cinefex]]'', issue 61, p. 65), as well as the space-based visual effects for {{film|9}}, where they worked alongside [[Blue Sky/VIFX]]. They also created the [[D'Arsay archive]] and [[comet]] effects for {{TNG|Masks}} (their first contributions to ''Star Trek'') and the comet effects for the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' series title sequence. Subsequently they worked with [[Dan Curry]] on the spatial effects in the main title sequence for ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and additional CGI effects for the first two seasons.
+The CGI for ''Voyager''{{'}}s title sequence was created by using the company's own in-house developed software called {{w|Dynamation (software)|Dynamation}} which earned developer [[Jim Hourihan]] an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 1996.[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1278798081591]
-{{stub-production}}
+Outside ''Star Trek'', the company has worked on productions like ''Spawn'' (1997), ''An American Werewolf in Paris'' (1997), ''Ghosts of Mars'' (2001), and ''K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002) as well as the critically acclaimed documentary series ''500 Nations'' (1995).
-[[Category:Production companies]]
+SBS apparently ceased its existence shortly after 2002, as no website is available of the company and no further credits are known, whereas founder Grower has accumulated further credits outside the SBS framework.
+==Staff==
+*[[Curtis Breber]]
+*[[Phil Brock]]
+*[[Eric DeJong]]
+*[[Axel Dirksen]]
+*[[Bruce Jones]] - Executive Producer
+*[[Janet Grower]]
+*John Grower - CEO/Effects Supervisor
+*[[Eric Guaglione]] - Animation Supervisor
+*[[Diane Holland]]
+*[[Jim Hourihan]]
+*[[Bill Kovacs]]
+*[[Richard Kriegler]] - Art Director/Digital Matte Painter
+*[[Peter Lloyd]]
+*[[Rick McDonald]]
+*[[Ron Moreland]] - Technical Director
+*[[Craig Mullins]]
+*[[Matt Rhodes]] - R&D
+*[[Will Rivera]]
+*[[Eric Saindon]] - Lead Modeler
+*[[James Strauss]] - Animation Supervisor
+*[[Kathi Sumec]]
+*[[Pete Travers]] [http://www.thepaintedcave.com/pete/pete_resume.php]
+*[[Mark Wendell]] - Animator
+*[[Kelly Wilcox Travers]] [http://www.thepaintedcave.com/kelly/kelly_resume.php]
+==Further reading==
+*"Designing The Title Sequence" (for [[VOY]]), Dale Kutzera, ''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 27 #4/5, 1996, pp. 72-75
+*"Effecting an Insurrection", Ron Magid, ''[[American Cinematographer]]'', January 1999, pp. 40-46
+*"''Star Trek Insurrection'': Visual FX", [[Larry Nemecek]], {{STC|121}}, February/March 1999, pp. 52-59
+*"Lost in the [[Briar Patch]]", Kevin H. Martin, ''[[Cinefex]]'', issue 77, April 1999, pp. 68-95
+== External link ==
+* {{IMDb-link|type=company|page=co0078487|name=Santa Barbara Studios}}
+*[http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/tree/sbs.html Company overview]
+[[de:Santa Barbara Studios]]
+[[Category:Digital visual effects companies]]