When Dreamworks SKG and Pacific Data Images (PDI) entered a co-production deal to create Antz back in 1996, PDI had already become a major player in cgi. However, this was mainly in television ...

The PDI/DreamWorks headquarters is easy to miss in this remote Redwood City office complex, wedged anonymously between two high-tech companies, with a sign smaller than your average dentist's office.

When I heard the news, my mind didn’t turn to any of the big-budget features produced by PDI/Dreamworks, starting with Antz in 1998. Instead, I thought about an era well before there was a DreamWorks.

In the lobby of a modest office building on Park Boulevard in Palo Alto, a small awards case sits with a noticeable gap on the top shelf. It's flanked by two Emmys and two buglike statuettes. Workers ...

Dreamworks closes PDI studio. How could this have happened? The Studio PDI/Dreamworks with hits like “Shrek” and “Madagascar,” the successful animation studio PDI/Dreamworks will be closing. It should ...

As part of its restructuring announced today, DreamWorks Animation will be shutting down PDI/DreamWorks, its computer animation production company in Redwood City, CA. Half of PDI’s 450 workers will ...

HOLLYWOOD — DreamWorks’ computer animation and special f/x subsid PDI is expanding into a new San Francisco location, leasing 120,000 square feet in a building partly owned by Credit Suisse. A ...

Since we do cover a fair amount of animation (especially computer animation), we thought it'd be nice to put up some pictures of Antz, because it was a great movie, and second, because we had them ...