That could be about to change thanks to the technology Digital Domain pioneered on Benjamin Button.
Digital Domain Media Group Incorporated is trading off about 4% on the day Wednesday.
They are getting faster and more powerful, but they are doing so only within their own digital domain.
Digital Domain broke new ground last year with the Oscar-winning special effects in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
" Popeye , " Robert Altman's endearingly eccentric venture into the realm of 1930s comics, has finally entered the digital domain.
Then there's Digital Domain, a visual-effects house started by James Cameron that Bay bought in 2007 with his business partner, John Textor.
"A good year for us was a 5% return, " said Scott Ross, who co-founded Digital Domain in 1993 after serving as general manager of ILM.
"We have all had to endure substantially increased operating costs by setting up shops in locations where those local governments are providing subsidies, " said Digital Domain Chief Executive Ed Ulbrich.
But over time, our society has changed from an open setting of collaborative work to a closed, cubicle environment where work is isolated and trapped, confined by our digital domain.
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"Anybody who wanted to do a film of any stature, they'd have to pay the price, " says Scott Ross , a former ILM head who now runs competitor Digital Domain .
Rendering software that costs several thousand dollars per user just a few years ago can now be had for several hundred dollars, said Digital Domain creative director of software Doug Roble.
It's not a stretch to guess that with Thor, Digital Domain will show us a realistic-looking digital superhero who can act just as well as the real actor he is based on.
If Digital Domain can create a superhero who looks like he is really doing all the dangerous stunts we see, it will be another breakthrough in the annals of the big screen.
An online colloquialism, "Eye Bleach, " is the act of cleansing one's vision with images of puppies and rainbows after having seen the unseeable, like a bulimic cleanse for untoward things we've done in the digital domain.
In the days before Snopes, let alone the ability for a false rumor to spread quickly in the digital domain, I was involved in another such misinformed groundswell movement perpetrated on a big-branded company.
It is a magnet to cyber-entrepreneurs who dream of pushing the computer revolution into new areas: companies such as American Cybercast, which is trying to pioneer entertainment on the Internet, Virtual Emporium (Internet shopping) and Digital Domain (special effects).
Core to that tale of two hackers is a layer of the Web that acts as a digital directory assistance, the Domain Name System.
In the late '90s this pioneering music site may have scored the perfect domain name for offering digital downloads, but since it elected to stick with peddling legal downloads, most of the bands it features are small, independent acts.
They sought to describe the role, value, and limits of public domain and open access to digital data and information in the context of international research.
In an interview Thursday, Cohen said most, but not all of the archives in the digital library are older works in the public domain.
For digital CEOs used to the susceptibility of problems to the power of algorithms, the analog world of politics is a domain frustratingly beyond their reach.
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