“Red Planet: AMEE” by Cinesite
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Title:
- Red Planet: AMEE
Length:
- 1:21
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Cinesite
Description:
AMEE is the attitude-rich, computer-generated villain and star of this film. Cinesite’s artists modeled, animated, textured, lit, and composited AMEE into a menacing, taunting feline successor to HAL.
Additional Contributors:
Producer: CINESITE
Visual effects and AMEE character animation: CINESITE
Visual Effects Supervisor: THOMAS J. SMITH
Visual Effects Producer: SCOTT DOUGHERTY
Animation Director: STEVE MARKOWSKI
CG Supervisor: SERGE SRETSCHINKY
Composite Supervisors: MARK LEWIS, JERRY SELLS
CG Tracking Supervisor: JEFF BAKSINSKI
Paint Supervisor: CORINNE POOLER
Rotoscope Supervisor: ERIN CULLEN
Visual Effects Editor: KEVIN CLARK
CG Character Modelers: JOHN HEWITT, JONATHAN GERBER
CG Character Animators: CHRIS LENTZ, DERRICK CARLIN, DAVE FEITEN, ETHAN MARAK, MIKE MAKARA, DAVID FEITEN, TOM GURNEY, JACKIE GORDON, MINHEE CHO
CG Lighters: WAYNE VINCENZI, KATE CHOI, QUENTIN FROST, OLUN RILEY, DAN KESSLER, DARREN KINER
CG Texture Artists: BRIAN GARDNER, SCOTT BALLARD; RUTH CASPARY, JOHN WALLACE
CG Particle Animators: JAMES PETERSON, OSCAR CASTILLO
CG terrain: RAM SAMPATH
CG Tracking Artists: LYNN BASAS, DAN WANKETT, MIKE RAMIREZ, ANTHONY SERENIL, STEVE BOVAIRD, CHAD OWEN
Compositors: MARCEL MARTINEZ, SARAH MOORE, TOM ZILS, KAREN KLEIN, KEN SJOGREN
Digital Artits: JOE DUSS, VALERIE MCMAHON
Rotoscope Artists: KRYSTIN£ KRYTTRE, SERENA NARAMORE
Concept Department: LUSA HIUSTOV, KINO SCIALABBA
VFX Asistant Editors: JASON SULLIVAN, STEVE RHEE
Digital Asset Manager: VINCE LAVARES
3D Data Operators: RANDY BAHNSEN, WALLY CHIN, ROBERT COQUIA
Data Management Supervisors: TONY SGUEGLIA, PAVEL DVORAK
Data Operators: JOHN CEBALLOS, FRED JIMENEZ, RUTH VASQUE
Visual Effects Coordinators: DAVID ROBINSON, CARL MOORE
COO: RUTH SCOVILL
VP/Head of Production: GIL GAGNON
Executive Producer: DENNIS HOFFMAN
Production Manager: KRISTEN NIEDERHOLZER
Office Manager: KARL RUMPF
Production Accountant: CARLA SIERRA
CTO: DAN ROSEN
Computer Services: ROBERT MANCE, MARK SARTE, BEN FARRIS, PHILIP ROWE, PAT MACKLE, ARKAY HUR, VICTOR VU
Scanning and recording: PAT REPOLA, KIM COVATE, BOB FERNLEY, ERIK HAKANEN, LEILA RATTI, JOSH ROBERTS, KRISTOPHER GREGG, GLEN GUSTAFSON, KEVIN SCHWAB, PETER MOC, FLOYD BURKS, JAY ADAMS
Research and development: THOMAS ASBURY, JERRY TESENDORF, VIJOY GADDIPATI, EDWARD LABAO, DAN WESTON, PHIL GRAHAM, SHANKAR CHATTERJEE VAULT, KYLE DEVRIENDT, BILL MURPHY, STEPHANIE ROGERS
Video Operators: KEVIN LAN EAVE, DALE STELLY
Projectionist: CURTIS LINDERSMITH