The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd

The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd is a leading developer of visual effects and image processing technologies that boost productivity and workflow in film and video postproduction.

The company was established in 1996 by Bruno Nicoletti and Simon Robinson, both intimate with high-end post production facilities across the globe, and together they produced the Tinder plug-ins for Discreet's Flame systems, the first set of such plug-ins to be commercially available. The Foundry has grown considerably since its early days; the company now successfully licenses its sophisticated image processing technology to third parties, holds a portfolio comprising three Academy Award winning products including high-end compositing application NUKE and operates offices in London and LA. The Foundry's products are renowned worldwide and support a wide range of host platforms including After Effects, Autodesk Media and Entertainment Systems, Avid DS, Baselight, Film Master, NUKE, Scratch and Shake. The Foundry's technology has been sold to customers in 33 countries and used on most recent effects-rich blockbuster films.

In addition to product development The Foundry has used its considerable influence to drive the development of an open standard for visual effects plug-ins known as OpenFX.

In i3DPost, The Foundry will be the Project Co-ordinator, lead the work on software development, dissemination and exploitation preparation, and take part in the development of new algorithms and processes for 3D postproduction. It will also conduct the work on Standards with the OFX community.