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| Industry | Visual effects |
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| Founded | 1979 |
| Defunct | 2001 |
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Key people | Hoyt Yeatman, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister |
Dream Quest Images, later known as The Secret Lab, was an American visual effects company, co-founded in 1979 by Hoyt Yeatman, Scott Squires, Ohio native Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister. [1]
After early piecemeal work on Escape from New York , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , and One From the Heart , [1] Dream Quest expanded operations and earned back-to-back visual effects Oscars for work on The Abyss and Total Recall . [2] [3]
In 1996, Dream Quest was purchased by The Walt Disney Company. [4] [5] While Disney began development on Dinosaur , they decided to fold Dream Quest into Walt Disney Feature Animation and subsequently renamed it "The Secret Lab" in 1999. [2] [6]
After The Secret Lab did the visuals of the 2000 animated film Dinosaur , a shuttering process begun, started by cancelling the animated film the studio was doing with Walt Disney Feature Animation, Wildlife. [7] The Secret Lab closed its doors in 2001, [2] but it only shut down once its artists finished their work on Reign of Fire and Kangaroo Jack . [8] [9]
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