Netter Digital Entertainment (NDE) was a visual effects and CGI

special effect Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual wor ...

s company founded in 1995 and went out of business in 2000.

History

Netter Digital Entertainment was created by Douglas Netter in 1995. The company produced the show

Hypernauts ''Hypernauts'' is a proof of concept show produced by Foundation Imaging and Netter Digital Entertainment. To further prove that the computer-generated imagery and visual effects created in ''Babylon 5'' were easily applied to other venues, the ...

before moving to digital EFX work and replacing

Foundation Imaging Foundation Imaging was a CGI visual effects studio, computer animation studio, and post-production editing facility. History The company was founded by Paul Beigle-Bryant and Ron Thornton. It pioneered digital imaging for television programming ...

in the final two seasons of ''

Babylon 5 ''Babylon 5'' is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Tel ...

'' as the sole producer of CGI

s for that series as well as several of the B5 Made-For-TV movies. NDE also produced all the effects for its short-lived spinoff, ''

Crusade The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were i ...

''. With the cancellation of ''Crusade'' in

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, Netter Digital lost its only client. They subsequently worked on the ''

Dan Dare Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the ''Eagle'' comic story ''Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in repri ...

'', ''

Max Steel Max Steel is a line of action figures produced and owned by the toy company Mattel since 1999. The original figures based on the first TV series were similar to the original 12-inch G.I. Joe toys, consisting almost entirely of different versi ...

'', and '' Robotech 3000'' animated television series, but this was not enough to prevent them going out of business in

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

. They were replaced on ''

'' and ''

'' by

Filmography

* Babylon 5 * Crusade * Dane Dare * Max Steel * Robotech 3000

References

Visual effects companies Film production companies of the United States Defunct companies based in California Mass media companies established in 1995 Mass media companies disestablished in 2000 1995 establishments in California 2000 disestablishments in California {{US-media-company-stub