“Starship Troopers – Visual Effects” by Tippett Studio
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Title:
- Starship Troopers - Visual Effects
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Tippett Studio
Description:
“Starship Troopers” follows the adventures of its heros as they battle the Arachnid Army, a vicious armada of insect warriors on planets across the Galaxy. Tippett Studio relied exclusively on computer graphic technologies to design, model, animate, light, and composite 225 digital bug shots, some with thousands of Bugs.
Additional Contributors:
Creature Visual Effects Produced by: Tippett Studio
Creature Visual Effects Supervisor: Phil Tippett
Design Vfx Supervisor: Craig Hayes
Vfx Producer: Jules Roman
Production Supervisor: Alonzo Ruvalcaba
Supervisor Character Animation Department: Trey Stokes
Lead Character Animators: Blair Clark, Pete Konig, Adam Valdez
Character Animators: Jeremy Cantor, Kirrie Edis, Tom Gibbons, Randall Link, Mark Schreiber, Tom Schelesny, Gary Siela, Tanya Spence, Robin Watts, John Zdankiewicz
Supervisor Art Department: Paula Lucchesi
Lead Digital Painter: Belinda Van Valkenberg
Digital Painter: Joel Friesch
Digital Model Makers: Martin Meunier, Merrick Cheney
Supervisor Digital Lighting: Julie Newdoll
Lead Digital Lighting: Larry Weiss, Greg Butler
Digital Lighting: James Flux, Dean Hadlock, Joe Littlejohn, Sara Mathew, Desiree Mourad, Steve Reding, Saba Rofchaei, Scott Souter, Allison Torres, Bart Trickel
Match Movers: Andy Chen, Aaron Kohr, David Woolsey
Digital Post Camera: Frank Petzold
Lead Digital Fx Animator: Darby Johnston
Digital Fx Animators: Eric Leven, Al Arthur
Supervising Compositor: Brennan Doyle
Lead Digital Compositor: Zoe Peck
Digital Compositors: Alan Boucek, Greg Derochie, Colin Epstein, William Eyler, Charles Granich, Jim Mcvay, Alfred Murrle, Jeff Sargent, Russ Sueyoshi, Helen Verhoeven
Supervisor Digital Rotoscope: Joanne Ladolcetta
Digital rotoscope: Renee Binkowski, John Dunlap, Grace Murphy, Betsy Nofsinger, Sabrina Riegel, Cathy Waterman
Operations Manager: Jeff Stringer
Vfx Coordinators: Julie Garrard, Ken Kokka, Suzanne Lowe, Chris Paizis
Production Accountant: Suzanne Niki Yoshii
Senior Software Developer: Doug Epps
Lead Software Developer: Josh Minor
Software Development Manager: Kim Jones
Software Developers: Adrienne Othon, Ian Reid, Roger Rohrbach
Film I/O Supervisor: David Rosenthal
Digital Scanner Operator: Steve Stanton
Digital Camera Operator: Peter Juneau
Color Correction: Page Frakes, Haunt Rama
Film I/O Coordinator: Molly Lynch
Editor: Kevin Rose-Williams
Assistant Editors: Maia Veres, Tom Krebs
Sculptor: Ron Holthuysen
Fabricator: Natalie Lopez
Mold Maker: John Reed
Systems Manager: Thida Cornes
Systems Administrators: Christian Rice, Hendrik Te Winkel
Data Wranglers: Mike Palmieri, Jeff Branion
Tech Support: Frank Cox, Jeshua Lacock
Systems Assistant: Seth Roberts
Purchasing Agent: Linda Landry-Nelson
Accounting Assistant: Sherry Wong-Kitamura
Foreman: Paul Silva
Assistant Foreman: Ben Harris
Production Assistants: Alexi Taylor, Neal Hoover, Vicki Wong
Assistant to Supervisors: Kc Rosenberg
Intern: Katherine Aaron