Netter Digital Entertainment (NDE) was a visual effects and CGI

special effect Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the fictional events in a story or virtual world. ...

s company founded in 1995 and went out of business in 2000.

History

Netter Digital Entertainment was created by Douglas Netter in 1995. The company produced the show Hypernauts before moving to digital EFX work and replacing

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in the final two seasons of ''

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'' as the sole producer of CGI

s for that series as well as several of the B5 Made-For-TV movies. NDE also produced all the effects for its short-lived spinoff, ''

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''. With the cancellation of ''Crusade'' in

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, Netter Digital lost its only client. They subsequently worked on the ''

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'', '' Max Steel'', and '' Robotech 3000'' animated television series, but this was not enough to prevent them going out of business in

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. They were replaced on ''

'' and '' Max Steel'' by

Filmography

* Babylon 5 * Crusade * Dane Dare * Max Steel * Robotech 3000

References

Visual effects companies Film production companies of the United States Defunct companies based in California Mass media companies established in 1995 Mass media companies disestablished in 2000 1995 establishments in California 2000 disestablishments in California {{US-media-company-stub