VP New Media Technology- Alison Savitch
Alison brings great expertise with motion capture to eDoorways and she brings the “best in the business” artistic and technical connections who can convert the nuts and bolts of that motion capture into compelling visual characters who you won’t forget in a lifetime. Remember the Company’s current objective has been downloading an expert’s knowledge onto a mobile device to enable a user to verbally interact with him/her 24 hours a day. Alison’s motion capture technology will extend that process from audio and text into a full range of human emotion, capturing not only what’s inside the head of those experts but now, for the first time ever, capturing and presenting an individual’s entire “look and feel” while they’re working with you. Instead of mere text bubbles or even speech recognition and text-to-speech, imagine what it will be like to chat with and ask questions of a state-of-the-art totally-expressive avatar of the expert himself who resides inside that device you’re holding in your hand? How cool will that be?
Alison Savitch is a producer in multi-media entertainment; live action movies & television, digital visual effects for blockbuster movies; animation and theme park attractions for the worlds leading parks.
Ms. Savitch is Chair of The Producer’s Guild of America, New Media Council; she is on The National Board of Directors for the PGA; The Advisory Board of Gnomon School of Visual Arts and is a founding Board Member of the Visual Effects Society.
Savitch is also known for her innovations in 3-D stereoscopic as well as interactive and real time media for tv, internet and broadband.
Her credits include: The Poseidon Adventure, Messengers, Rise, Journey to the Center of the Earth (stereoscopic pre-viz) The Abyss, Dracula, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Grudge & The Grudge 2, Rise, Aliens of the Deep, The Shadow, Arachnophobia, The Last Action Hero, the Mortal Kombat movies and television series, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Beowulf, The Faculty, Dogma and many others.
Her groundbreaking work on both The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day contributed greatly to these films winning 2 Academy Awards for best special visual effects.
Savitch produced both Mortal Kombat features. Each one opened number one in the box office as they went on to gross nearly $200 million worldwide. She also produced Mortal Kombat’s Animated series that was #1 on USA network, as well as Mortal Kombat, The Journey Begins, a direct to video animated special that ranked #1 on the Billboard Kid Vid sales and rental charts, in which Ms. Savitch pioneered the use of Motion Capture and went on to further develop Motion Capture for some of Hollywood’s most memorable and technically advanced moments on film.
Most recently, she produced and supervised the animation and visual effects on numerous major theme park attractions, including an all CGI stereoscopic movie for Hershey Park, Star Trek: Borg Invasion a- stereoscopic ride/attraction film for Paramount’s Theme Park Division and the Walt Disney Company’s #1 ride ever, “Mission Space” at Epcot Center as well as one of Euro Disney’s top attractions ARMAGEDDON, based on the blockbuster movie.
Savitch is also involved in developing the launch of a new era in a 3D stereoscopic process for the main stream market place, including producing the REAL D demo, and work with Cobalt 3D, Aliens of the Deep Title Sequnce , as well as various museums and alternative venues.
