Dream Quest Images, later known as The Secret Lab, was an American visual effects company, co-founded in 1979 by Hoyt Yeatman, Scott Squires, Ohio native Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister.
History After early piecemeal work on Escape from New York, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and One From the Heart, Dream Quest expanded operations and earned back-to-back visual effects Oscars for work on The Abyss and Total Recall.
In 1996, Dream Quest was purchased by The Walt Disney Company. While Disney began development on Dinosaur, they decided to fold Dream Quest into Walt Disney Feature Animation and subsequently renamed it "The Secret Lab" in 1999.
After The Secret Lab did the visuals of the 2000 animated film Dinosaur, a shuttering process begun, started by cancelling the animated film the studio was doing with Walt Disney Feature Animation, 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 Kangaroo Jack.
Dream Quest selected filmography
Year Films1981 Evilspeak Escape from New York1982 One from the Heart Blade Runner E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial1983 V (TV miniseries) Twilight Zone: The Movie National Lampoon's Vacation Deal of the Century1984 V: The Final Battle (TV miniseries) Gremlins Best Defense The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Dreamscape The Ratings Game1985 The Stuff D.A.R.Y.L. Pee-wee's Big Adventure National Lampoon's European Vacation Better Off Dead Amazing Stories (TV episodes 1-23)1986 House Short Circuit Captain EO (Disney theme park film)1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors House II: The Second Story Predator The Lost Boys Real Men The Hidden1988 The Blob A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Earth Girls Are Easy Moonwalker Scrooged Phantasm II1989 Warlock The Abyss Fat Man and Little Boy National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation1990 The Exorcist III Total Recall1991 Defending Your Life Hot Shots! Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare Grand Canyon1992 Freejack Final Analysis Hero Toys1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights The Three Musketeers The Abyss (1993 Special Edition)1994 The Crow Wyatt Earp Little Big League The Mask Earth 2 The Swan Princess The Bible: Jacob (TV miniseries, TNT) ("Jacob's Ladder" segment) 1995 Crimson Tide Waterworld Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde Dracula: Dead and Loving It JAG (TV series) The Bible: Moses (TV miniseries, TNT) ("burning bush", "snakes in Pharaoh's palace", "plagues of Egypt" and "crossing the Red Sea" segments)1996 Shaughnessy (television film) Alien Nation: Millennium (television film) Primal Fear Heaven's Prisoners The Arrival The Rock Rolling Thunder1997 Jungle 2 Jungle Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves Con Air George Of The Jungle Flubber Kundun1998 Deep Rising Six Days and Seven Nights Armageddon Mighty Joe Young1999 My Favorite Martian Instinct Inspector Gadget The Sixth Sense Stigmata Bicentennial Man2000 Mission to Mars Dinosaur (First animated film; credited as The Secret Lab) Shanghai Noon 102 Dalmatians2001 Planet of the Apes2002 Reign of Fire2003 Kangaroo Jack
See also Animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company
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