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Cinesite (also known as Cinesite VFX) is a visual effects and feature animation studio. Its registered office in London opened in 1991, offering services in visual effects for film and television. It subsequently opened a studio in Montréal in 2014, for visual effects and feature animation. In August 2015 it was announced that Cinesite had merged with Vancouver-based visual effects company Image Engine. == History == Kodak established Cinesite offices in Hollywood and London in 1991 and 1994 respectively, as service bureaus for Kodak's Cineon digital film system. Both Cinesite locations quickly evolved to became full service a visual effects facilities completing VFX work on many notable films. Initially, the two company locations worked solely as film based visual effects facilities, completing effects in the 1990s on ''Space Jam'' (1996), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). In 2003, Kodak merged the Cinesite Hollywood office into LaserPacific. In 1999, the London facility became increasingly involved in television work, creating Emmy Award nominated visual effects for Cleopatra (1999), Band of Brothers (2002) and Into The Storm (2009) and winning Emmy Award Cinesite has completed visual effects for all eight films in the Harry Potter franchise. The company's former model-making division created the scale model of Hogwarts, which features in the first six films, as well as Wonkaville in Tim Burton's ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' (2005) and the grand finale parliament explosion sequence in ''V for Vendetta'' (2006). Cinesite contributed 500 visual effects shots to The Golden Compass, which won a visual effects Academy Award and BAFTA in 2007. In August 2010 Cinesite created the stereoscopic 3D conversion for their visual effects on the 2011 film ''Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides''. It then undertook the stereo conversion for ''John Carter'', released March 2012. In May 2012 Kodak sold Cinesite to a UK based private investor. Current ownership is a combination of its existing management team supported by private investment. Cinesite has worked with a variety of directors, including Sam Mendes, Andrew Stanton, Chris Weitz, Tim Burton, Wolfgang Petersen, Christopher Nolan, Brian De Palma, John Woo, Alfonso Cuarón, Joel Schumacher and David Dobkin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cinesite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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