“BBC iPLayer Penguins” by Passion Pictures
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 06
Title:
- BBC iPLayer Penguins
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Passion Pictures
Description:
Filmmaker and writer Terry Jones is the latest star to feature in an ambitious marketing trailer for BBC iPlayer. The 90-second trailer shows Terry following a unique colony of Adelie Penguins as they fly thousands of miles across the frozen wasteland of Antarctica to the Amazon rainorest.
Passion Pictures were responsible for the animation. Director Darren Walsh, VFX supervisor Neil Riley, and a team of animators and compositors studied BBC archive footage and numerous films of birds with similar shapes, in particular guillemots, taking off and flying to ensure they could reproduce the movement of the penguins as realistically as possible.
The Mill were responsible for post production, the edit was done at The Quarry, and the sound at Wave. Anne Dudley composed the music.
Hardware:
XSI
Software:
Final Cut Pro
Additional Contributors:
Director: Vince Squibb
Client: BBC Iplayer
Production Company: Red Bee/Gorgeous
Producer: Sarah Caddy
Agency: RKCR Y&R
Senior Creative Director: Mark Roalfe
Creative: Paul Silburn
Editor: Paul Watts @ The Quarry
Post Production: The Mill
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Animation Director: Darren Walsh
Producer: Belinda Blacklock
Executive Producer: Andrew Ruhemann
Head of CG: Jason Nicholas
CG Co-ordinator: Chris Knott
VFX Supervisor: Neil Riley
Animators: Wes Coman, Chris Welsby, Brian Ayres, Kristian Antonelli
Lighting and Rendering: Nuno Conceição, Claire Michaud, Sajjad Amjad, Quentin Vien
Compositors: Niamh Lines, Ed Salked, Giuliano Cavalli, Neil Riley
Rigger: Chris Dawson
Modelling: Nuno Conceição, Stuart Hall
