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Services Offered
Our Mission - To Serve YouTo provide the Independant Animators, and Filmmakers with superior quality 35mm film services at an affordable price. We provide services for 35mm film projects. And our business is structured to provide these services at the lowest possible cost to you. Background - The Man Behind The CompanyThe proprietor, Bob Durrenberger has over twenty five years of experience in the field of computer graphics and image processing, as a software designer and developer. Bob is the original author of ImagePro (TM) from Media Cybernetics, Inc., the first Image Processing program to run on any small computer platform. Bob developed this, the first PC-based image processing program, while working for Media Cybernetics, Inc back in 1985. (Yes, we beat Adobe Photoshop to the market.) Bob also has extensive 3D graphics and image processing software design, having developed his own digital Chromakeying and Compositing process as well as a unique 3D distortion correction process that replaced a one million dollar optical distortion correction lens for a large-scale government "visual simulator" project. In addition, Bob has worked a second career in video and film production, working in 16mm, 35mm, and video to produce content for cable, film festivals, national broadcast and industrial clients such as the State Of California Attorney General's Office. Robert Durrenberger has over twenty years of experience as a software engineer/video engineer, expert in computer graphics, digital video and image processing. In the mid-1980s, Robert began developing the first PC-based image processing software program, ImagePro (TM) while at Media Cybernetics, Inc. in Silver Spring, Maryland. Also in the 1980s, Robert was implementing 3D graphics and voice recognition systems while at the Army Research Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. Robert was writing 3D software in his spare time, he developed his own 3D animation system in the late 1980s and then began a second career in video production, generating 3D animations for industrial commercials, the State Of California Attorney General's Office, and a national cable ad. One piece, "Tomorrow Today" was screened at a film festival at the La Jolla Contemporary Art Museum, La Jolla California. Robert began working with the Video Toaster when it first hit the scene in the early 1990s. He was a founding leader of the first Video Toaster User Group, he ran a Toaster systems integration and editting business, and was co-chair of SIGGRAPH local, at that time. Robert's experience with film started back in the 1970s, in college, where he gained access to a rare 16mm film recording system at a research institute at the University of Illinois. That project goal was to author a Users Guide to the film recording system. As a side event, Robert and his associate produced a 16mm 3D animated station ID for the PBS station in Champaign, Illinois. In the mid 1990s Robert started experimenting with retrofitting film recorders and then in the late 1990s he began a film recording business, after acquiring his first 35mm film recorder. By this time, his software career had grown into a sucessful consulting business, incorporated, that assisted clients in San Diego such as Digital Equipment Corp., Computervision, Compton's NewMedia, Template Graphics, and Channelmatic. At Channelmatic, Robert worked on video server development for their MultiCaster digital cable system that is now being used in Isreal by the nation's leading cable operator. Given his experience with digital video, Robert began experimenting with video-to-film transfers, and in 2000, he setup the first video-to-film transfer house in San Diego, CA, as an on-line business. Robert began transferring film shorts for clients who submitted pieces to film festivals all over the world. Also, Robert has assisted in the completion of features including an HD transfer, a DigiBeta transfer and many animation film recordings. |