San Francisco Ballet and Juliet" (1994); "Giselle" (1999); "Don Quixote", co-staged with former principal dancer and current choreographer in residence Yuri Possokhov (2003); and "Nutcracker" (2004). Tomasson's "Nutcracker", set in San Francisco during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, is notable for being the only uniquely San Francisco "Nutcracker". It features sets (including "a backdrop of San Francisco's Victorian houses known as 'painted ladies) and costumes created by, respectively, Michael Yeargan and Martin Pakledinaz, both repeat Tony Award-winning designers. Upon its premiere, "The New York Times" called Tomasson's "Nutcracker" "striking, elegant and beautiful". Today, San Francisco Ballet presents approximately 100 performances each year.
Sega Studios San Francisco was to be used for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called "Proteus", a successor to "Star Wars Galaxies". Development of Pangaea was halted in 2004 after Lucasarts reorganized under Jim Ward. Some of the ideas later informed the design of the studio's internal Riders engine used on "" and "Iron Man". Sidecar was a standalone UI authoring tool and SDK. Sidecar was used on several projects both internally and externally, among them, "", by Z-Axis. Sega Studios San Francisco Sega Studios San Francisco, formerly known as Secret Level Inc, was an American video game developer based in San Francisco,