Founded in 1987, Rhythm & Hues Studios today is a leading producer of character animation and visual effects for the entertainment industry. The company's work can be found in a large number of feature films, theme park attractions, music videos, interactive video games and commercials. In 1995, Rhythm & Hues was honored with the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for its work on the film "Babe," also named one of the top ten films of the 1990's by the Associated Press. In 1999, the studio crossed a major threshold by announcing it would develop and produce its own theatrical films and television projects.

The studio's 70,000 square foot facility based in Marina del Rey, California, is a creative home for more than 300 artists and staff, including award winning directors of both live action and animation, art directors, designers, paint-box artists, modelers, computer animators, producers, programmers and production support. The founders are experienced hands-on creatives familiar with the complexities in all areas of production. Their technical and creative guidance provides an invaluable resource to clients.

Rhythm & Hues Studios is experienced in both traditional and digital filmmaking. Physical resources include a 30,000 square foot sound-stage with full motion control and blue-screen capabilities. The versatility of its stages and sophistication of its equipment allows R&H to layer computer-driven motion controlled imagery in its own proprietary CGI interface, where, in collaboration with its Design Division, animators and technical directors are able to create a broad spectrum of art, from photo-real to highly stylized, utilizing state of the art digital lighting and character animation techniques.

The Feature Film Division has provided visual effects and character animation for such recent films as "Battlefield Earth," "The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas," "Entropy," "End of Days," "Fantasia 2000," "Anna and the King," "Stuart Little," and "Mystery Men." The production pipeline at R&H currently includes a number of upcoming features, among them: "Little Nicky," "The Sixth Day," "Frequency," "Bedazzled," "Red Planet" and "The Hollow Man."

The Commercials Division created the Coca-Cola Polar Bears, the most-watched animated commercial campaign in recent memory. At any given time, Rhythm & Hues produced commercials air throughout the world for clients as diverse as Xerox, Tidy Cats, Mazda and Intel.

Theme park attractions by R&H include "Seafari" for MCA/Universal theme parks, Japan, "Star Trek: The Experience" at the Las Vegas Hilton and two IMAX projects: "Race For Atlantis IMAX 3D" at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas and the 3D IMAX film "T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous," featuring photo-realistic, computer generated dinosaurs.

Rhythm & Hues has received two Scientific & Technical Academy Awards: one for the development of its film scanner - the first of its kind in the industry - and one for their contributions to the development of the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer, an early computer graphics system that helped set today's standard for computer animation. Rhythm & Hues continues to win top awards from both national and international competitions including the CLIOS, The New York Festivals, the International Monitor Awards, Imagina in Monte Carlo and the Emmy Awards.