Rhythm & Hues Studios is an Academy Award winning visual effects studio, founded in 1987 by six former employees of Robert Abel and Associates. The company is located in Los Angeles, California and Mumbai, India. It is perhaps best known for its computer generated 3D character animation.

The studio received an Academy Award in 1996 for its work on Babe, named by the film reviewers of the Associated Press as one of the Top Ten Movies of the Decade. The studio was named one of Top Five Visual Effects Powerhouses by Wired Magazine in September, 2002, and again in August 2004 by Newsweek.

The studio's signature CG animation is showcased in the movie versions of Daredevil, Garfield, Scooby Doo, Cats and Dogs, and Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.

On the visual effects side, recent work includes The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Elektra, The Chronicles of Riddick, X-Men 2, The Sum of All Fears, Elf, and many more. The studio has over 100 feature films to its credit and is currently working on creating the Hulk and the Abomination in The Incredible Hulk.

Rhythm & Hues has also produced many popular animated commercial campaigns, including the Coca-Cola Polar Bears, GEICO's Gecko, the Hartford Stag, and the Target dog.

Recent projects include Superman Returns, Charlotte's Web, Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, Night at the Museum, His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, and The Incredible Hulk (film). It also worked on Happy Feet which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Awards

Winner:

• 1995: Academy Award for Visual Effects - Babe

Nominated:

• 2006: Academy Award for Visual Effects - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

External links

• Official Rhythm & Hues website
• Official Rhythm & Hues India website
• Rhythm and Hues Studios' chronological list of credits at the Internet Movie Database
• An alternative list from the Rhythm & Hues site.
• Rhythm and Hues Studios article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki

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