“Body Story” by Moving Picture Company

  • ©Daniel Percival and Leanne Klein


Conference:


SIGGRAPH Video Review:


Track:


    01

Title:


    Body Story

Length:


    2:00

Director(s):


Company / Institution / Agency:


  • Moving Picture Company

Description:


    Commissioned by Wall To Wall Television for Channel 4, the Discovery Channel, and ITEL, “Body Story” is a series that takes the audience on six thrilling journeys inside the human body. The Moving Picture Company created 48 minutes of computer anima­tion for six episodes (350 shots in 12 months). In-house software was written to effect an efficient method of rendering such vast amounts of geometry.

Software:


    In-house software, Maya, RenderMan, Shake, propietary software, Inferno, Fire


Additional Contributors:


    Producer: DAN GLUCKMAN, The Moving Picture Company

    Post production: THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY

    CG Supervisors: RICHARD MORRIS, CHAS JARRETT, JIM RADFORD

    Animators: GLEN SwETEZ, LARS JOHANSSON, JOHN LEONTI, JON ATTENBOROUGH, RUSSELL APPLEFORD, ADAM LUCAS, TONY THORNE, KEVIN MODESTE, RORY MARKS, MARTIN HEIGAN, BEN SHEPERD

    Programming: JONATHAN STROUD, PETER GRECIAN, WILLIAM GEIGER

    Computer systems: JAMES PEARSON, STEWART ANDERSON

    Compositing: PAUL O’SHEA, GREG SLATER, YELENA STOJANVOIC, DANNY ETHERINGTON, MARK STANNARD, MARCUS MOFFAT

    Design: ROBIN SHAW, RICHARD MORRIS

    Art Direction: ROBIN SHAW, SEAN SCHUR

    Production: ASHER EDWARDS, GILBERT JAMES

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