“The Penguins of Madagascar Gone in a Flash” by Nickelodeon
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2009 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2009:
Title:
- The Penguins of Madagascar Gone in a Flash
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Nickelodeon
Description:
This animation represents the culmination of two years of CG development to find the optimum balance of entertaining storytelling, high-quality aesthetics, and technical innovation. This combination allows Nickelodeon to produce an 11-minute episode each week at a near-feature-level quality on a television timeline and budget.
Over the last two years, we have developed asset-building scripts, lighting tools, and a workflow pipeline that allows us to automate much of the CG animation process. This has enabled us to streamline and quickly produce high-quality solutions for many of the technical challenges that usually plague CG production, such as fur and large poly-counts in modeling. With these technical innovations, we create efficient and consistent assets that we pass onto our vendor studios, allowing them to concentrate most of their resources on high-quality animation and avoid dedicating large resources to solving technical problems. As we continue to expand and refine our Maya tools and interfaces, we believe this will continue to allow our artists to further push what can be created in CG for the small screen.
Software:
Maya 8.5, Photoshop, Body Paint, Real Flow
Additional Contributors:
Director: Bret Haaland
Executive Producers: Bob Schooley, Mark McCorkle
Written by: Todd Garfield
Storyboard: Sean Kreiner
Supervising Director: Nick Filippi
Animation Supervisors: Chris Neuhahn, Randy Dormans
Based On Characters Created by: Tom McGrath And Eric Darnell for The DreamWorks Animation Movie “Madagascar”
Supervising Producer: Bret Haaland
Animation Producer: Dina Buteyn
CG Line Producer: Dean Hoff
CG Supervisor: Russell Tracy Jr.
Lighting And Compositing Supervisor: James Davidson
CG Texture Supervisor: Angela Ursillo
CG FX Supervisor: Matt Cawood
CG Supervising Animator: Michael Franceschi
Production Manager: Nicola Gayle
CG Production Managers: Blanca Uribe, Sonya Park
Technical Manager: Eric Swanborg
Senior Production Coordinator: Joann Estoesta
CG Senior Production Coordinator: Lisa Thibault
Production Coordinator: Vladimir Radev
CG Production Coordinators: Ken Boyer, Katie Lykins, Michal Wright-Ward
Script Coordinator: Justin Charlebois
Senior Production Assistant: Ahnorrah-Rose Sutton
CG Senior Production Assistant: Eileen Flores
Production Assistant: Michelle Alfieri
CG Production Assistants: Sal Lopez, Dan Garza, Mercedes Dominquez, Shondalia White, Cat Lefebvre
Cast:
Skipper: Tom McGrath
Rico: John DiMaggio
Kowalski: Jeff Glen Bennett
Private: James Patrick Stuart
King Julien: Danny Jacobs
Maurice/Tourist: Kevin Michael Richardson
Mort: Andy Richter
Mason: Conrad Vernon
Teacher/Kid Walla: Tara Strong
Voice Director: Lisa Schaffer
Original Casting: Sarah Noonan, CSA
Casting Director: Meredith Layne, CSA
Casting Coordinator: Shannon Reed
Casting Assistant: Roxanne Escatel
Animation Director: Dave Knott
Storyboard Revisionists: Jill Colbert, Tomihiro Yamaguchi, Emmanuel Deligiannis
Animatic Supervisor: Steve Downs
Animatic Editor: Ted Machold
Design Supervisor: Honore Gauthier
Character Designers: Stephen Silver, Jennifer Wood
Prop Designers: Aldina Dias, Jae H. Kim
Color Stylists: Bryan Evans, Kaz Aizawa
Background Layout Designers: Elsa Garagarza, Maurice Morgan
Background Painters: Bryan Evans, Bill Dely
CG Lead Technical Director: Ant Ward
CG Lead Modeler: Joe Alessandra
CG Lead Generalist: Joe Brogno
CG Technical Directors: Joy Johnson, David Kim, Nick Puetz, Jason Stockton,
Waleed Boghosian
CG Generalists: John Cahoon, Pooneh Nasrollahnia, Alexander Rial, Harry Sanchez, Steve Tarin
CG Senior Modelers: Sergio Lorenzo, Vypac Voeur
CG Modelers: Andrew Bina, Dev Karna, Bailey Monty, Joe Dela Torre, Judith Ferrer, Stephanie Pate, Sam Wey
CG Lead Shader Artist: Anthony Esposito
CG Texture Artists: Brent Gordon, Candice Stephenson, Elyse Hartey, George Taylor, Sonserae Leese-Calver, Eric Mattson, Kaz Aizawa, David Palmer, Frida Sahono Jozwik, Suk Choon Yoon, Susan Harris, Roberto Jaurequi, Bryan Johnson
CG Lead Lighting And Compositing Artists: Nousha Emami, Jim McLean
CG Lighting And Compositing Artists: Patrick Krebs, Christina Chiusano, Tobias White, Dan Haring
CG FX Animators: Justin Andrews, Russell Richardson, Steve Moore, Melanie Walchek
CG R & D Director: Alfredo Barcia
CG R & D Technical Director: Chris Karlberg
CG Animators: Erik Kling, Dennis Shelby
Animation Production Services: Gone In A Flash, DQ Entertainment, Ltd.
DQE Executive Producer: Tapaas Chakravarti
DQE Vice President – Operations: Vishal Dudeja
DQE Chief Technology Officer: Srikanth Pottekula
DQE Assistant Vice President – Production: Srinivas Katta
Supervising Recording Engineer: Justin Brinsfield
Assistant Recording Engineer: Matt Corey
Dialogue Editor: Michael Petak
Supervising Picture Editor: Otto Ferrene
Post Production Supervisor: Oliver Pearce
Post Production Coordinator: Brady Klosterman
Director Of Post Production: Jason Stiff
Additional Post Production Services: Kimberly Bowman, Jonathan Hylander, C.J. Kinyon, J.F. Kinyon, Rohner Segnitz, Amy K. Wu
Music Composed by: Adam Berry
Post Production Sound: Oracle Post
Supervising Sound Editor: Paulette Lifton
Post Audio Supervisor: Jimmy Lifton
Foley Artist: Vincent Guisetti
Foley Recordist: Aran Tanchum
Foley Editor: Matt Hall
SFX Designer: Ian Nyeste
SFX Assistant Editor: Matt Hall
Sound Re-Recording Mixers: D.J. Lynch, Ian Nyeste
Post Production Services: CCI Digital
Telecine Colorist: Bob Sackter
Main Title Developed by: Bret Haaland, Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley
Creative Consultants: Tom McGrath, Eric Darnell, Mireille Soria
Special Thanks to: Cyma Zarghami, Brown Johnson, Alison Dexter, Mark Taylor,
Roland Poindexter, Audrey Diehl
Executive In Charge For Nickelodeon: Rich Magallanes
