In nuce: In the latest episode of his 21 Artist Show, Technical Director and host Alexander Richter talks to Carl Rosendahl, founder of the now defunct VFX company PDI (Pacific Data Images).
Let’s talk: As president of PDI at the time, Carl Rosendahl was involved in visual effects-heavy films such as “The Arrival” (starring Charlie Sheen), the cult superhero film “Batman Forever”, the action classic “Terminator 2” and the Robin Williams vehicle “Toys”. Rosendahl and PDI later plunged into the beginnings of fully animated cartoons and were involved in genre gems such as “Antz” (with Woody Allen as a constantly nagging ant) and “Shrek” (the daredevil hero with a green coat of paint).
PDI – A company history: Apart from these cinematic stations, Rosendahl also reports on how PDI was acquired by DreamWorks in 2000 and renamed PDI/DreamWorks. So if you want to know everything about the founding days of the legendary VFX company PDI, how the core team worked together and why PDI’s company history finally came to an end in 2015, you can click (and listen) to the latest episode of the 21 Artist Show.
Further information: For all other episodes of Alexander Richter’s podcasts worth listening to, visit him on Spotify. If you prefer to see which heads are attached to the respective voices, you can watch the whole thing as a moving image on YouTube . And if you want to learn more about visual effects, we recommend Alexander Richter’s blog .
Founding PDI/DreamWorks (ANTZ & Shrek) w/ Carl Rosendahl
