Alison Savitch
- Visual Effects
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Alison Savitch is President and co-founder of Threshold Digital
Research Labs, a groundbreaking global digital animation and effects
production studio. The company produces original full-length digitally
animated feature films. TDRL also has a production services division
that creates and produces digital visual effects and digital animation
for movies, television, web sites, games, IMAX movies, theme parks and
location based entertainment. Ms. Savitch is recognized around the
world as one of the industry's leading visual effects supervisors and
producers. Her skill at combining technology with entertainment is
virtually unparalleled. Acknowledged for her ability to combine
advanced technology and filmmaking creativity in a cost-efficient
manner, Savitch has received numerous awards for her dynamic and
distinctive digital visual effects and animation. Savitch was in
instrumental in building TDRL into a state of the art digital animation
facility headquartered in Santa Monica, CA. In addition, Savitch has
created a global network of animators that enables TDRL to erase the
vast distances that once separated Hollywood from amazing talent around
the world. Savitch has substantial experience in creating, developing
and producing visual effects for feature films, television, interactive
entertainment as well as games and large format or location based
entertainment. Her credits include The Abyss, Dracula, Terminator-2:
Judgment Day, The Shadow, Arachnophobia, The Last Action Hero and the
Mortal Kombat movies and television series, Weight of Water, Highlander
Endgame, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Beowulf, The Faculty,
Dogma and others. Her groundbreaking work in both The Abyss and
Terminator-2: Judgment Day won two Academy Awards for special effects.
Savitch also produced Mortal Kombat The Journey Begins, a direct to
video animated special that went on to become number one the Billboard
Kid Vid sales and rental charts. Ms. Savitch pioneered the use of
Motion Capture to create extremely realistic animated fighters in
battle. This was the first time Motion Capture was ever used in the
creation of an entertainment production. Savitch went on to further
develop Motion Capture through Mortal Kombat Annihilation wherein
digital creatures battle live action fighters and again in Beowulf (a
feature-length science-fiction film based on the classic poem), where
it was used to create a digital actor. Most recently Alison supervised
Edward Fudwupper Fibbed Big a fully CGI animated theatrical short for
Nickelodeon. Currently, she is producing and supervising the visual
effects on TDRL's first full-length digitally animated feature film
_Foodfight! (2002)_. Ms. Savitch is also one of the founding Board Members of the
Visual Effects Society.