In 1993 Dyami and Jamie Caliri collaborated on an Apple IIe program they named Caliri-Control. The program controlled an animation motor on Jamie's 35mm Arriflex. Soon Dyami (a professional software engineer) had the program doing much more. It calculated hand-cranked camera moves and kept a running exposure sheet during the shot. It became Jamie's essential tool for shooting stop motion throughout the '90's.

In 1997, when Jamie started a commercial project that needed a frame-grabbing tool, he asked Dyami to create new Mac software called Stop Motion Machine. The program had all the standard animation tools and worked well, but was only used on one commercial. Jamie moved into live action for the next few years and Stop Motion Machine sat unused.

Almost ten years later, in 2005, Jamie started work on the United Airlines spot, "Dragon". He wanted to shoot stop motion with digital stills. Dyami went back to work. Their goal: to combine all of the great features of Caliri-Control with the frame-grabbing features from Stop Motion Machine. With added insights from stop motion virtuoso Kim Blanchette, the result was a fantastic stop motion tool that helped bring the Annie-award-winning United Airlines spot to life.

Since then the software has been used on many national commercials, the short film "The Sun and the Seed," and played a part in the effects development of Henry Selick's "Coraline."

After realizing that other Mac stop motion tools had major limitations, Dyami and Jamie decided to offer the program to the public. With the public version comes a new name: "Dragon 1.0."