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We are a "Computer Graphics and Imaging" Company.
We started in the print graphics world in 1982. In 1985, Rick Hall (founder) saw his first computer animation, a little red and white ball called "Boing" bouncing around the computer screen. By the end of 1986 Eric Graham, ex-astronomer and software developer, had created "The Juggler" and "ray-tracing" was added to Rick's vocabulary. His next words were "Amiga 1000". The company grew from a simple logo animation company to... more...
Founded in 1988 by Rick Hall in Charlotte, NC. Debi Hall Joined CGI Group in 1997.
Opened the Waynesville, NC Office in 2004.
We will dedicate ourselves to understanding the needs and desires of our customers so that we may strive to meet and exceed our customers' expectations.
We are be a dedicated team of professionals working in an environment where each individual will be challenged and given the resources to afford everyone the opportunity to achieve their maximum potential.
Our principle values are:
Honesty, Trust, Respect, Integrity and Unity.
These values will guide our operating processes, how we treat each other, our customers and how we make value based decisions.
We must strive to live by these values first as individuals and then as an organization.
We get so many requests from students that we've decided to add a section just to answer some of those questions. When we got started in this business, we were totally on our own. We did things the old fashioned way... trial and error. And no one in the business wanted to share their knowledge. Now it's different. Knowledge is everywhere. You can go to school, take an online class, buy a DVD tutorial and learn just about anything by example. There are so many wonderful full featured movie DVD's in the market that are packed with life experiences from animators, directors and producers. One of my favorites is the "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy. The extended versions with behind the scenes sections is absolutely outstanding. They offer some of the best insights to this type of work that I have ever seen.
Advice:
We talk to quite a few students and they always say... "I don't want to do flying logos. I want to..." Well, you also need to do flying logos. They pay the bills and that's what your customers sometimes want.
Back to our case study. ABG - Ingersoll-Rand. You should know that all the work we've done for them started with their need for a flying logo. Imagine if we decided that we didn't do flying logos...