Myrtle Software has been hired by Digital Domain, the leading visual effects house based in Venice California, to help produce the next generation of its proprietary Storm renderer.

Storm won Digital Domain an Academy Award® for Scientific and Technical Achievement in 2004 and has been used on numerous major motion pictures including The Day After Tomorrow, Stealth, Flags of Our Fathers, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End and Transformers.

Craig Zerouni of Digital Domain said "It's very exciting for us to be able to draw on the the skills and experience of Peter Baldwin and Myrtle Software. The fit between their expertise and our existing toolset is ideal, and proving very productive." Peter Baldwin of Myrtle Software said "It's a great honour to be chosen to help produce the next version of such an august, production proven tool. I'm sure that we can make it even better and keep Digital Domain ahead of the curve for many years to come".

Many thanks to all those people we met whilst demonstrating the volumetric rendering at Siggraph 2006 in Boston. It was great to put so many faces to names!

Comments from Myrtle Software's Peter Baldwin about the creation of fluid effects for Warner Bros' "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" included in this online article

Myrtle Software will be attending Siggraph 2005 in Los Angeles - if you would like to see us there please get in contact!

Images created using Myrtle Software's fluid simulation tools appear in the book Production Rendering, Design and Implementation, Springer Verlag 2005