
At the time, there were only three employees.

He was joined in 1988 by founding director, Char Davies, a Virtual Reality artist who became vice-president of Virtual Research. Softimage was founded in 1986 by National Film Board of Canada filmmaker Daniel Langlois. ĭuring the Microsoft years, Softimage also developed a non-linear video-editing and compositing suite named Softimage|DS, which was available from Avid Technology under the name Avid DS, until its EOL on September 30, 2013. In 1997, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Softimage a Scientific and Engineering Award for the development of the "Actor" component of Softimage|3D. Its successor, Softimage XSI, was used in the production of the Academy Award-winning feature film Happy Feet, 300 and Charlotte's Web (2006) and the production of games such as Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Its first product, Softimage 3D, was used in the creation of special effects for movies such as Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, Titanic and The Fifth Element. A subsidiary of Microsoft in the 1990s, it was sold to Avid Technology, who would eventually sell the name and assets of Softimage's 3D-animation business to Autodesk.


ˌ s ɒ f t ɪ ˈ m ɑː ʒ/ was a company located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that produced 3D animation software.
