Hammerhead Production
is an effects studio established in the mid-1990s by five former employees of Pacific Data Images. As the name implies, the studio is largely known for its fish and water animation, which can be seen in Deep Blue Sea, Blue Crush, Undercover Brother and Couples Retreat.
They also have a Korean subsidiary known as Animation Picture Company. Because of the close affiliation (and the fact that Hammerhead lists their credits on their website). Their credits are included in the list below.
Aside from the above, Hammerhead's projects include:
- American Wedding
- Bad Teacher
- Batman Forever
- Blades of Glory
- Bruce Almighty
- The Bucket List
- The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
- Cloverfield
- The Core
- Cowboys & Aliens
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) remake (Additional effectsnote , and co-producer)
- Doctor Dolittle 2
- Duplicity
- Eight Legged Freaks
- Escape from Horrorland (with Blur Studio and Dream Quest Images)
- The Fast and the Furious
- Flubber
- Funny People
- Fury (2014)
- Gangster Squad
- The Garfield Animated Movie Trilogy
- Get Rich or Die Trying
- Godzilla (2014)
- The Green Hornet
- Guilt Trip
- Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
- Herbie: Fully Loaded
- The Hunger Games (MTV Awards preview)
- I Am Legend
- I Am Number Four
- Imagine That
- Joe Somebody
- Just Like Heaven
- Kazaam
- Land of the Lost
- Last Holiday
- Martian Child
- Me, Myself & Irene
- Men of Honor
- My Favorite Martian
- Norbit
- Paulie
- Practical Magic
- Paranormal Activity (second and third films only)
- People Like Us
- Prometheus
- Public Enemies
- Queen of the Damned
- Red Planet
- The Ring Two
- Robin Hood (2010)
- Salt
- Showgirls (Earliest Project)
- Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back (with Prana Studios; uncredited)
- Spawn (1997)
- Sphere
- The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water
- Stop Loss
- Supernova (also co-producer, the only film they worked on where this is the case)
- A Time to Kill
- Titanic (1997)
- Tropic Thunder
- The Tuxedo
- U.S. Marshals
- Up in the Air
- Wanted
- Year One
Tropes associated with Hammerhead:
- Animal Theme Naming: They're named after the hammerhead shark.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: In the site's entry of Titanic, there's a comment in that one scene of the miniature ship (by Digital Domain) looked faker than the CG Dolphins that were also present.
