SANDDE was a software and hardware system, developed primarily by IMAX Corporation, designed to create hand-drawn, stereoscopic 3D animation content.
It was intended to be intuitively usable, like a pencil: as an art creation tool, SANDDE incorporated aspects of drawing, painting, sculpture and puppetry.
Thereafter, IMAX stopped active development of the system but provided licenses to the National Film Board of Canada for artistic experimentation.
The NFB has used SANDDE in numerous stereoscopic productions including Falling in Love Again[2]", Moonman, June,[3] The Wobble Incident, Subconscious Password,[4] and Minotaur.
In 2007, IMAX spun off the Janro Imaging Laboratory to explore future development and commercial use of the application, including in Ultimate Wave 3D and Legends of Flight, both produced by the Stephen Low Company.