“49” by Iwano Design
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2007 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2007:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 01
Title:
- 49
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Iwano Design
Description:
In an anonymous country, a man works at a base that is equipped with powerful missiles. Today is his son’s birthday, and he has just finished making a model plane that he has been secretly creating in his spare time.
He intends to give the plane to his son as a present when he returns home. However, just when the day’s work is coming to an end, the telephone rings. He wonders what it can be…
This is a story of the paradoxical situation in which a typical father wishes peace and happiness for his family, though he works at a place where weapons of mass destruction exist. We also live in a complex society where happiness and anxiety are interwoven. This work is a metaphor that expresses this kind of situation.
PRODUCTION: Character design was achieved through sketches and modeling clay based on polygonal modeling.
Texture was achieved by scan-reading painted objects, making adjustments to them, and then pasting them onto polygonal models.
Total production time: 39 months
Writing the story and producing the storyboard: 24 months
CG production: 15 months
Hardware:
PC Intel Pentium 4, 2.8GHz CPU, 1GB RAM
Software:
Modeling, animation, rendering: 3ds Max 7
Character animation: 3ds Max
Compositing: After Effects, Premiere
OS: Windows 2000
Additional Contributors:
Director: Ichiro Iwano
Story, Design, and Animation: Ichiro Iwano
Music: Keiji Fujii
Producer: Ichiro Iwano
