MAGI was an early computer technology company which produced SynthaVision, a software application that could replicate the laws of physics to measure nuclear radiation rays for U.S. In the late 1970s, Chris Wedge, then an undergraduate at Purchase College studying film, was employed by Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. History 1980–1989: Formation and early computer animation
It produced 13 feature films, the final one being Spies in Disguise, released on December 25, 2019. Its first feature, Ice Age, was released in 2002 by 20th Century Fox. Using its in-house rendering software, the studio created visual effects for commercials and films before dedicating itself to animated film production. It was founded in 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their employer, MAGI, one of the visual effects studios behind Tron, shut down. was an American computer animation studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Such a lack of awareness of this most common type of rape may cause both perpetrators and victims of such rape to minimize the criminal nature of such at the Wayback Machine (archived June 9, 2021) (now redirects to disney. This one-dimensional depiction of rape may help to perpetuate the public's lack of awareness of sexual abuse and rape committed by "normal" males in the context of coercive dating or acquaintance relationships. The films also attested to the inadequacy of criminal courts in dealing with rape. The films clearly depicted these rapes as wrong and deserving of punishment for the offender. Rape in these movies was committed by sadistic, disturbed, lower class individuals who prey on children and the vulnerable. The movies in 1996 presented a monolithic depiction of rape.
Interrater reliability was high, ranging from 85 percent agreement for whether the movie was directed at a male or female audience to alpha =.98 for the occurrence of rape. If the sex scene was classified as a rape, several other variables were measured, including time of occurrence, type of rape, and whether the offender was punished for the crime. For individual sex scenes, coders identified the type of sex that was occurring (heterosexual or homosexual, consensual or rape), who initiated the act, the use of birth control, and the use of drugs and/or alcohol. For each movie, coders identified the genre of the film, the type of audience to which the film was directed, and whether the movie contained any sex scenes. Training for each coder consisted of an introduction to the survey instrument, including definitions of sex and rape, and watching sample movies collectively and discussing the results. Each of the 50 films was watched by 3 individual coders.