Stargate is the blockbuster Quantel has been waiting for. Since Quantel announced the development of Domino (Technology, 14 December 1991), film-makers have been cautious, only trying the system out on a few scenes in relatively low-budget movies. Domino enables film makers to play the same tricks without reducing the quality of the pictures seen by cinema-goers. Over the past twenty years, Quantel has changed the face of television with its electronic video editing systems – Paintbox, Harry and Henry. When the mechanism failed, Domino saved the day. The producers had initially spent $150 000 on a model pyramid which was supposed to open up mechanically. The image was fed into the special effects system, and then electronically manipulated. But the audience is actually watching a computer-animated sequence that started out as a still photograph of a model. In one scene, a giant pyramid opens like a flower. The film recouped its $60 million production costs within a month of its release in the US. Stargate, a sci-fi movie, uses the British company’s electronic wizardry to conjure up more than seventy scenes. THE FIRST film to make full use of the computerised special effects generated on Quantel’s Domino system will open in Britain on 6 January.
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