“Into the 4th Dimension (stereoscopic)” by Harper
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SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 04
Title:
- Into the 4th Dimension (stereoscopic)
Length:
- 4:30
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Harper Films, Inc.
- Landmark Entertainment Group
Description:
Produced as a theme park attraction involving motion-based seats, 12-channel stereo sound, twin 70-mm projection, and in-theater lasers. The SIGGRAPH presentation is in a reduced film format (twin 35-mm with two channel stereo sound).
Hardware:
HARDWARE: Silicon Graphics 40 series Sym bolics 36XX series Film Record ing, Celco, Solitaire
Software:
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER:
Additional Contributors:
Executive Producer: Gary Goddard
Co-Produced & Written by: Robert W. Anderson
Computer Animation Unit
CG/ Supervisors: Michael Wahrman & Brad deGraf
Production Design: Jim Shaw, Dan Goozee & William Stout, Inc.
Art Direction: Rick Harper, Kerry Colonna, Cliff Boule
Production Illustrators: Ed Eyth, Adolph Schaller, Shawn McManus, Donna Tracy
Post Production Supervisor: Joshua Pines
Line Producer: Maija Beeton
Production Manager: Liz Ralston-Bugge
Scene Technical Directors: Kevin Bjorke, Jim Hillin, Liza Keith, Larry Malone, Marc Scaparro, Phil Zucco
Additional Technical Direction: John Adamczyk, Ken Brain, Greg Ercolano, Dean Foster, Joseph Goldstone, Jim Goodman, Adrian Iler, George Karl, Andy Kopra, Craig Reynolds
Modelers: Ken Cope, Tom Betts
Puppeteering: Trey Stokes
Editorial: Ladd McPartland
Assistant Rendering: Joaquin Gill, Jim Guyton
Production Assistants: Eve Valentina, Carter Potter, Carl Syberg, Anne-Marie Sircello Spargur
Special computing equipment: Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
Other computing by: Ray Feeney, RFX, Inc.
Rendering Software: PIXAR RenderMan MAX, Purga tory, Music World, Light and Dark World; Symbolics S-Render: Intro, Finale, Math World, Frag ments, Vortex/Galaxy/Rosette Performance Animation Software: deGraf/Wahrman, Inc.
Animation Software: Symbolics S-Dynamics
Modeling Software: Symbolics S-Geometry, deGraf/ Wahrman MMaker
Film Recorder: CELCO
Accounting Services: Don Rhodes, CPA
Live Action Unit Production Manager: Matthew Geer
3-D Consultant: Stephen Hines
Pre-Production: Antoine Compin & Charis Horton
Production Coordinator: Gail Sanders
Production Accountants: Theresa Enzer, Diane Kehrli, Ann Harper
1st Camera Assistant: Steve Slocomb
2nd Camera Assistant: Todd Slyapich
Helicopter Pilot: Craig Hosking
Location Coordinator: B.J Griffith
Helicopter Mount: Tyler Camera
Panavision Camera Technician: Don Earl
Optical Effects
Optical Supervisors: R. William Dorney & Rob Yamamoto
Optical Cameraman: Cosmas Paul Bolger, Jr.
Assistant Cameraman: James Seltenreich
Light Art: Jerry Morawski
Effects Animators: John A. Petteys Ill & Kathleen Quaife-Hodge
Post Production
Editors: Robert W Anderson & Rick Harper
Supervisors: Rick Gordon & John A. Petteys Ill
Color: CFI
Prints: Deluxe
Laboratory Consultant: Chris Bushman
Negative Cutting: RPG Film and Video, Inc.
Sound Design: Soundelux
Music Composer: Gary Guttman
Orchestrator & Conductor: William Kidd
Music Performance: The Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Special Additional Music: James Gabriel
Music Producer: Ted King
Recording Mix-Down Engineer: Gary Gray
Soundtrack Production Manager: James Fielden
Assistant Sound Editor: Mark Lanza
Technical Audio Advisor: Keith Klawitter
Re-Recording Facility: Meridian Studios, Inc.