When Dreamworks SKG and Pacific Data Images (PDI) entered a co-production deal to create Antz back in 1996, PDI had already become a major player in cgi. However, this was mainly in television ...

The PDI/DreamWorks headquarters is easy to miss in this remote Redwood City office complex, wedged anonymously between two high-tech companies, with a sign smaller than your average dentist's office.

Patti Burke has been named head of PDI/DreamWorks, the computer animation facility behind “Shrek” and “Antz.” Burke takes the reins of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based studio from Aron Warner, who is ...

When I heard the news, my mind didn’t turn to any of the big-budget features produced by PDI/Dreamworks, starting with Antz in 1998. Instead, I thought about an era well before there was a DreamWorks.

Chris Miller and Raman Hui will be honored as animation directors of the year at ShoWest, the annual film industry convention that runs Mondaythrough March 15 at the Bally's and Paris hotels in Las ...

In the lobby of a modest office building on Park Boulevard in Palo Alto, a small awards case sits with a noticeable gap on the top shelf. It's flanked by two Emmys and two buglike statuettes. Workers ...

As part of its restructuring announced today, DreamWorks Animation will be shutting down PDI/DreamWorks, its computer animation production company in Redwood City, CA. Half of PDI’s 450 workers will ...

HOLLYWOOD — DreamWorks’ computer animation and special f/x subsid PDI is expanding into a new San Francisco location, leasing 120,000 square feet in a building partly owned by Credit Suisse. A ...

Dreamworks closes PDI studio. How could this have happened? The Studio PDI/Dreamworks with hits like “Shrek” and “Madagascar,” the successful animation studio PDI/Dreamworks will be closing. It should ...

When Jeffrey Katzenberg partnered with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen to form DreamWorks in 1994, everyone expected he would oversee the company’s animated films. After all, during the prior decade ...

Since we do cover a fair amount of animation (especially computer animation), we thought it'd be nice to put up some pictures of Antz, because it was a great movie, and second, because we had them ...