Reflections on the Growth of 3D: Legend3D boosts staff as workload rises (San Diego Daily Transcript)

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Legend3D boosts staff as workload rises (San Diego Daily Transcript)

Legend3D boosts staff as workload rises (San Diego Daily Transcript): Legend3D expects to hire more than 150 employees in San Diego over the next three months to transform some of Hollywood’s biggest upcoming blockbusters into 3-D.

Bio

This is a series of blogs by Barry Sandrew, Ph.D., founder and CCO/CTO of Legend3D. Sandrew received his doctorate in neuroscience from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1977. After winning a two year NIH Fellowship at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, he joined the staff at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as staff Neuroscientist. In 1987, he left his academic and scientific career to found American Film Technologies, and invent the first all-digital colorization process for colorizing black and white feature films. He took that company public while converting hundreds of movies for clients such as Turner, Disney, Warner Bros., Fox, Gaumont, TF1, ABC, and CBS, among many others. Sandrew left colorization to start two new companies, one of which included Lightspan, one of the largest educational software companies in the world. That company went public and was later acquired by Plato Learning. In 2000, Barry then founded Legend Films and began the process of re-inventing colorization and developing a proprietary restoration process. Over the course of the next seven years, Legend Films converted approximately 145 black and white titles to color as well as several TV series. In 2006, he recognized that the future of entertainment would be 3D and, leveraging his proprietary colorization pipeline, he modified the entire R&D direction and business model to embrace 2D-to-3D conversion, changing the name of the company to Legend3D. Today, as the most innovative company in the conversion industry, Legend3D continues to lead the field, delivering the highest quality product with the fastest turn around time, at the most competitive pricing.

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