“I don’t think we’re late coming to India” Daniel Seah,CEO , Digital Domain

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In two-and-a-half decades in the entertainment industry; projects like TitanicTrue LiesTransformersBeauty and the BeastPirates of the Caribbean: At World’s EndThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonTRON: LegacyThorReal SteelIron Man 3; the Rio Olympics 2016 — Digital Domain (DD) has mainstreamed VFX, VR/AR and 360-degree videos. Headquartered in Los Angeles with branches set up across Canada, UK and China, the company entered India only last year in Hyderabad. A chat with Daniel Seah, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Digital Domain Holdings, during his India visit, helps us connect a few dots.

“I don’t think we’re late coming to India,” Seah says. His sixth year since he’s taken charge as its CEO, Seah confesses India has been on their agenda for a long while. DD is traditionally focused on its Hollywood markets and they took longer than expected, building their Vancouver facility, . “The artistes here are well-known globally, they share a similar visual language to that of the US audience. This is just the beginning. We have all the confidence that India will grow as big as our other facilities across the world.”

Obvious advantages

One of DD’s biggest strengths is their digital assets library that they’ve painfully been putting together since the ‘90s. “From True Lies to Transformersto Titanic, we’ve created content that the entire world has seen. People imagine elements like space travel or even a dinosaur with the visual references and designs we’ve created. We’ve destroyed the world many a time in our movies — 2012, Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and the destruction is something that we let the viewers come to terms with.” He also gives us a reason behind Washington DC and New York being the first cities to be destroyed in most ‘end of the world’ movies. “It’s because of our digital cities; it saves money. The digital assets are the biggest advantage that we have. Our artistes have a lot to choose from; the groundwork has been ready for three decades.”

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