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Valley of The Morphs: (continued)  But in the world of computer
generated visual effects, things are never what they first seem.
Rosendahl is no exception to that rule: He dreams of morphing
from a Stanford electrical engineering geek into a studio
executive, complete with trips to film festivals, lunches with
writers, and story pitch sessions with studio bigwigs. PDI won't
always be the hired gun for others with stories to tell.
Rosendahl wants to tell his own. "I don't want to be a Walt
Disney I hope to accomplish a fraction of what he did,"
Rosendahl said. "My goal is to make PDI an animation studio
instead of a production facility. We want to use the technology
as a springboard to tell stories."  But to be a storyteller, you
need more than the ability to suspend disbelief. You need a
story. Fortunately, Rosendahl has a script. Several of them. And
they're not exactly collecting dust on