“Bunny” by Blue Sky Studios
Conference:
Title:
- Bunny
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Blue Sky Studios
Description:
Baking alone in her kitchen, tattered old Bunny receives a troublesome late-night visitor from the deepest woods – or deeper. A hairy moth, as battered as Bunny is, seems to be stalking her, and her attempts to remove it only make it more insistent. What is it about this nocturnal pest that stirs her deepest fears and memories? To find out, she must go through an emotional metamorphosis that sheds a whole new light on this quirky but heart-warming tale.
Hardware:
The rendering was done on a Compaq Computer Corporation AlphaServer RenderPlex sys-tem on 14 machines that had a total of 164 processors.
Software:
The film was animated and modeled using Softimage. The set and objects in Bunny’s house were created using CSG (Constructive Solid Geometry). Adobe Photoshop and Amazon were used for texture painting.
Additional Contributors:
Writer and Director: Chris Wedge
Producer: Nina Rappaport
Music: Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan
Digital Effects Supervisors: Dave Walvoord, Hilmar Koch,
Editor: Tim Nordquist
Lead Animators: Doug Dooley, Nina Bafaro
Animators: Jim Bresnahan, Dean Lennert, Raquel Coelho, Carlos Saldanhna, Rhett Collier, Jessee Sugarman, Ed Gavin, Steve Talkowski, Jeff Joe, Aimee Whiting, Justin Leach, Dan Whiting
Lighting Lead: Mitch Kopelman
Technical Directors: Andrew Beddini, Mike Eringis, Tom Bisogno, Dave Esneault, Chris Burrows, Sing-Choong Foo, Danielle Cambridge, Kristi Hansen, Jaime Castanada, Jesse Hollander, Rob Cavaleri, Andre Mazzone, Scott Clifford, Lutz Muller, Rhett Collier, Tim Speltz, John Donkin, Kevin Thomason, Jodi Whitsel
Production Coordinator: Irka B. Seng
Modelers: Cliff Bohm, Alex Levenson, Rachael Cohen, David Mei, Rhett Collier, Carlos Saldanha, Shaun Cusick, Kevin Thomason, Mike DeFeo, Chris Wedge,
Doug Dooley, Aimee Whiting, John Kahrs, Danny Williams, Justin Leach, Jodi Whitsel
Digital Paint Artists: Andrew Beddini, David Mei, John Siczewicz
Technical Assistants: Chris Burrows, Tim Speltz
Production Executive: David Brown
Production Manager: Laney Gradus
Production Accountant: Anthony Nisi
Production Assistant: Billy Foster
Blue Sky Research and Development: Richard Hadsell, Eugene Troubetzkoy, Carl Ludwig, Maurice Van Swaaij, Trevor Thomson, John Turner
Blue Sky Software Tools: Joe Higham, Sam Richards, Andre Mazzone, Chris Trimble
Systems Support: Dan Weeks, Leon Xiao
Special thanks to the following groups at Compaq: High Performance Servers Division – AlphaServers, Media and Entertainment Industry Group, Digital Unix Group for technical support and assistance, Enterprise Systems Lab for systems test support
Extra special thanks to Steve Briggs for making this film possible.
Music Producers: Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
Music Arranger: Francis Thumm
Sound Engineer: Jacquire King
Musicians: Andrew Borger, Trevor Dunn, Matt Brubeck, Joe Gore, Ralph Carney, Carla Kihlstedi, Nik Phelps
2nd Engineer: Jeff Sloan
Foley Artist: Ginger Geary
Audio Recordings and Mixing: Kessler Media Productions, Ltd.
Sound Designer: Robert Kessler
Sound Engineer: Scott Cresswell
Sound Engineering and Mixing Engineer: Paul Goodrich
Sound Transfer: Sound One
Dolby Sound Consultant: Eric A. Christoffersen
Film Recording: Pacific Ocean Post, special thanks to Pat Repola
Negative Cutter: Noelle Penraat
Color Timer: Fred Heid
Color by Technicolor
A production of Blue Sky Studios, Inc.
