Dream Quest Images, later known as The Secret Lab, was an American visual effects company, co-founded in 1979 by

Hoyt Yeatman Hoyt Yeatman (born January 23, 1955, in San Francisco, California, United States) is an American visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked with Jerry Bruckheimer on a number of films, including ''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon'', ''C ...

, Scott Squires, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister.

History

After early piecemeal work on ''

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'', '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'', and ''

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'', Dream Quest expanded operations and earned back-to-back visual effects

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for work on ''

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'' and '' Total Recall''. In 1996, Dream Quest was purchased by

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. While Disney began development on ''

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'', they decided to fold Dream Quest into

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and subsequently renamed it "The Secret Lab" in 1999. After The Secret Lab did the visuals of the 2000 animated film ''

'', a shuttering process begun, started by cancelling the animated film the studio was doing with

, ''Wildlife''. The Secret Lab closed its doors in 2001, but it only shut down once its artists finished their work on '' Reign of Fire'' and ''

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''.

Dream Quest selected filmography

References

{{Reflist Companies based in Simi Valley, California Special effects companies Visual effects companies Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners Companies established in 1982 Companies disestablished in 2001

History

Dream Quest selected filmography

See also

References