Digital Domain's Neil Huxley Directs Epic Show Open for UFC

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About Digital Domain
Digital production company Digital Domain, a subsidiary of Digital Domain Media Group (NYSE: DDMG), was founded in 1993. The company has created visuals for more than 80 movies, including Titanic, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and TRON: Legacy and hundreds of commercials. Its artists have earned multiple Academy Awards®. Digital Domain recently completed visual effects for Thor, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Real Steel and is in production on Jack the Giant Killer, 47 Ronin and a full slate of commercials. Digital Domain is headquartered in Venice, California with studios in Vancouver, San Francisco and Florida. http://www.digitaldomain.com

About Mothership
Hybrid commercial production company Mothership creates advertising, branded content, and entertainment for screens of all sizes. A sister company to Digital Domain, Mothership represents top global creative talent and enables them with all of the resources and expertise of the world-class, Academy-honored studio. Mothership creates the content, strategies and campaigns that take ideas from concept through completion, to roll out brand experiences across multiple media platforms. http://www.mothership.net

About Ultimate Fighting Championship®
Owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC, and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., UFC® is the world’s premier MMA organization and produces over 12 UFC live Pay-Per-View events annually around the globe. This year, FOX will broadcast four fight cards annually. In spring 2012, The Ultimate Fighter®, UFC’s signature weekly reality TV show, debuts on FX. UFC content is also distributed commercially to U.S. bars and restaurants through Joe Hand Promotions. Globally, UFC programming is broadcast in 150 countries, territories and jurisdictions, reaching over one billion homes worldwide, in 21 different languages.

UFC® also boasts a powerful presence online, with UFC.com attracting over seven million unique visitors per month, while also possessing one of the most powerful social media followings in all of professional sports. To date, UFC has over six million fans on Facebook and over 475,000 followers on Twitter. In addition, UFC President Dana White is one of the most accessible and most followed executives in sports with nearly 1.9 million followers on Twitter. On January 22, 2011, UFC continued to set trends in social media, becoming the first major sports league to stream live, broadcast quality action on Facebook.

Ancillary businesses include best-selling DVDs, UFC Magazine, the best-selling UFC “Undisputed” videogame franchise distributed by THQ, UFC GYM®, UFC Fight Club affinity program, UFC Fan Expo® festivals, UFC branded apparel, trading cards, and articulated action figures.

CREDITS

UFC Open “Evolution” :60
Client:
Zuffa, LLC

Frank Fertitta lll: Executive Producer
Lorenzo Fertitta: Executive Producer
Dana White: Executive Producer
Craig Borsari: Supervising Producer
Chris Kartzmark: Producer

Production, Animation, Editorial & Visual Effects by: DIGITAL DOMAIN
Directed by: Neil Huxley
Ed Ulbrich: Chief Creative Officer
Tanya Cohen: Executive Producer
Rich Flier: Executive Producer
Scott Gemmell: Head of Production
James Atkinson: Visual Effects Supervisor
Kait Boehm: Senior VFX Producer
William Lemmon: VFX Producer
Fred Fouquet: Editor
Ash Thorp: Art Director
Karl Denham: CG Supervisor
Scott Meadows: Previsualization Supervisor
Carlos Pedroza: Animator, Previs Artist
Derek Crosby: Digital Artist
Michael Lori: Digital Artist
Jon Aghassian: Digital Artist
Jesse James Chisolm: Digital Artist
Montu Jariwala: Digital Artist
John Niehuss: Digital Artist
Daniel Buck: Digital Artist
Keith Weilmuenster: Digital Artist
Marlan Harris: Digital Artist
Dawrath Phoue: Digital Artist
Marcel Caue Martins: Digital Artist
Eric Ebling: Digital Artist
Dennis Blakey: Digital Artist
Kurt Lawson: Compositor
Kevin Bouchez: Compositor
Guatama Murcho: Compositor
Jeff Heusser: Flame Artist

Music: Theme Licensed by 14th Street Music

Sound Design: 740 Sound Design

Scott Ganary: Executive Producer
Andrew Tracy: Sound Designer
Eric Ryan: Mixer







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