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Article: Digital Domain team forms new effects company. (Station X Studios L.L.C.)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- February 2, 1998
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The digital special effects boom may have faded, but that hasn't stopped a team from Venice-based Digital Domain from striking out on its own.
Emmy award-winning digital artist Grant Boucher and several others who worked on the hit movie "Titanic" recently opened Station X Studios LLC in Santa Monica.
The company has already completed effects for "Phantoms," a film just released by Miramax Films subsidiary Dimension Films, as well as for several commercials.
But Station X faces a daunting challenge as a new player in an industry that suffered a shakeout in the second half of 1997, as profits margins fell and costs rose.
Two well-regarded shops ...