Vision Crew Unlimited

Vision Crew Unlimited (VCU) was a motion picture and TV commercial visual effects company founded in 1994 by visual effects artists Evan Jacobs, Jon Warren and Douglas Miller.^[1] The company later expanded into a full service visual effects firm.

Miniature Saturn V rocket for From the Earth to the Moon.

In 1996, VCU contributed miniature effects to James Cameron's film Titanic. While they were initially hired as a subcontractor to lead effects house Digital Domain, VCU was ultimately hired directly by 20th Century Fox to build miniatures for the engine room sequence as well.^[2][3][4] In an interesting coincidence later that same year, the company was contracted to work on a CBS TV miniseries with the same name.^[5]

While the company worked on many feature films, they were much more prolific in the television commercial market, and worked on over forty spots in eight years.^[6] Their work was featured in ads for the majority of car brands^[7] as well as Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, and Geico.

In 1998, Jacobs and John Hoffman were nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries representing VCU's work on HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon".

Vision Crew closed in April 2002. The company attributed its shutdown to a difficult business climate and the founders' interest in pursuing other projects and opportunities.^[8]

Credits

Feature films

• The Mummy
• Dinosaur
• Jack Frost
• Armageddon
• Species II
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
• Flubber
• Dante's Peak
• The Fifth Element
• Titanic
• The Arrival
• Kazaam
• Space Jam
• Sometimes They Come Back...Again

Episodic and long-form television

• Monday Night Football graphics
• Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Killing Game"
• From The Earth To The Moon
• The Outer Limits "To Tell the Truth"
• Tower of Terror
• Tempting Fate
• A Wing and a Prayer
• Titanic (miniseries)

Television commercials

References

External links

• Official website