VisionArt Design & Animation was a visual effects company, founded in 1980s by David Rose and Todd Hess that rendered computer-generated images for use in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: First Contact.

They worked on the Changeling morph effect, scrutinized by Dennis Blakey first seen in "Emissary", winning them an Emmy Award. They also worked on Odo's transformation into a spinning top in "Shadowplay", the Changeling sea in "The Search, Part I" and "The Search, Part II", Odo's morph in "The Abandoned", the morphs in "Heart of Stone", Odo's "melting" in "Distant Voices" and several Changeling effects in "The Adversary", including the popular neck breaking scene involving Dennis Madalone.

VisionArt also created CGI models of starships such as the USS Defiant and the USS Mekong for when it was necessary to see those ships go to warp. The shot of the Defiant going to warp was first used in "Defiant".

For the new DS9 title sequence which first appeared in "The Way of the Warrior", VisionArt rendered the Defiant and the two runabouts that appear before the Deep Space Nine title as computer-generated. Other effects Vision Art worked on in that season include the artificial wormhole in "Rejoined" and the gas giant scenes in "Starship Down", where the Defiant, the Jem'Hadar fighter, the atmospheric probe and the cloud effects were all computer-generated. [1] (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion). A further major contribution was the fifth season first CGI version of the Jem'Hadar battle cruiser built by Tony Sansalone.

VisionArt also worked on popular films such as Independence Day, Men in Black, Godzilla, Doctor Dolittle and Deep Blue Sea. VisionArt entered into a joint venture with Digital Muse in 1996 and both companies closed their doors in 2000 as Digital Muse fell prey to a hostile take-over.

StaffEdit

• Dennis Blakey
• Rob Bredow
• Ted Fay
• Dorene Haver
• Ben Hawkins
• Carl Hooper
• Daniel Kramer
• Josh Rose
• Tony Sansalone
• Pete Shinners
• Robert Tom

External linksEdit

• VisionArt at Wikipedia
• Vision Art Design & Animation at the Internet Movie Database
• VisionArt Design & Animation at the Internet Movie Database