“Avenue Amy” by Raspo
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2000 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2000:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 07
Title:
- Avenue Amy
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Curious Pictures
Description:
“Avenue Amy” follows the life of a downtown girl as she searches for love in New York City’s East Village. Actors were shot on green-screen sets and digitally fed directly into a computer. On-set digital artists worked in concert with the live-action crew to create a stylized look. They had to ensure that the characters felt like they were in actual environments and that all the nuances of the performance would come through in the final animation. During their performance, the actors were able to see themselves in photo-real virtual 3D environments created from photographs of current Village locations. After the shoot, traditional eel animators digitally added more detail to the rendered characters, which were then composited into eel-shaded environments with touches of lighting, depth, and realism.
Additional Contributors:
Created by: Amy Sohn & Joan Raspo
Designed and Directed by: Joan Raspo
Written by and starring: Amy Sohn
Produced by: Sally Norvell
Production Manager: Phil Higgs
Visual Effects Supervisor: Lewis Kofsky
Digital Artists: Jeeyun Sung, Birgit Rathsmann, Vanessa vanderBaan, Grace Liu, Marcos Y. Zevallos
Director of Photography: Toshi Ozawa
Editor: Steve Hamilton
Produced by Curious Pictures for Oxygen Network
