The Post Group

The Post Group was founded as "Off-Line, Inc." in 1974 by Fred Rheinstein and had become "The Post Group" five year later. They were located on Homewood Avenue in Los Angeles and are currently owned by Matt Cooper. The company started with offline editing, but quickly expanded to include online editing, telecine, graphics,visual effects (VFX), and audio.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the company worked on the first four seasons ofStar Trek: The Next Generation and the first related film,Star Trek Generations. Their pioneeringCGI work on theCrystalline Entity in "Datalore" was one of the first CGI sequences used inStar Trek. It was rendered byChris Alsop. Other shows and films includedMax Headroom,Pee-Wee's Playhouse,Titanic,Independence Day, andApollo 13.

As VFX post-production editing vendor for theStar Trek franchise, they were superseded byDigital Magic in 1991, and its sister companyPacific Ocean Post in 1994.

Staff[]

The following employees worked onStar Trek:

• Chris Alsop – CGI renderer
• Pat Clancey – Visual Effects Editor
• Ray Clarke – DFX Paint FX Artist
• Helen Davis – Quantel Harry Artist / Creative Service Director
• Don Greenberg – Visual Effects Editor
• Stan Kellam – Visual Effects Editor
• Belinda Merritt – VFX Accountant
• Peter Moyer – Visual Effects Editor
• Steve Price – Quantel Harry Artist
• Fred Raimondi – Visual Effects Editor
• Rich Thorne – Chief Operating Officer
• Tony L. Torino – VFX Motion Control Director

Further reading[]

• "Special Effects – The Next Generation", Glenn Campbell & Donna Trotter,Cinefex, Issue 37, February 1989, pp. 4-21
• "The Special Effects", Michael McAvennie,The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 12, pp. 18-22, May 1990

External links[]

• PostGroup.com – official site
• The Post Group at theInternet Movie Database