“Cast Away” by Sony Pictures Imageworks
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2001 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2001:
Title:
- Cast Away
Length:
- 1:59
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Sony Pictures Imageworks
Description:
To strand Tom Hanks on a deserted island, “Cast Away” begins with a visceral plane crash sequence incorporating CG water and waves, live action and miniature photography, and numerous subtle digital effects. On the island, Hanks surveys the landscape, a combination of live-action photography filmed in a parking lot in Malibu and a completely CG-created environment.
Additional Contributors:
Visual Effects Supervisor: KEN RALSTON
Executive Producer: DEBBIE DENISE, Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc.
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor (Main Titles): KEN RALSTON
Visual Effects Consultant (End Credits): ROB LEGATO
Visual effects: SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS INC. Culver City, California
Co-Visual Effects Supervisor: CAREY GRANT VILLEGAS
Visual Effects Executive Producer: DEBBIE DENISE
Visual Effects Producer: CRYS FORSYTH-SMITH, CARI THOMAS
Visual Effects Production Manager: LAUREN ANN LITTLETON
Visual Effects Digital Production Manager: LINDSAY BURNETT
CG Supervisors: DAVID BURTON, BART GIOVANNETTI, LAYNE FRIEDMAN
VFXTDs: STEVE BLAKEY, DOUG CREEL, R. STIRLING DUGUID, CURTIS “NZ” EDWARDS, HARRY GUNDERSEN, ERIC HANSON, MATT HAUSMAN, GARMAN HERIGSTAD, DAN KAUFMAN, RAJI KODJA, ZSOLT KRAJCSIK, DANIEL LA CHAPELLE, DAVID C. LAWSON, TOM LYNNES, TODD PILGER, SAM RICHARDS, ALLEN RUILOVA, JEFF WILLETTE, JONATHAN WOOD, DOUGLAS YOSHIDA
Interactive Compositing Artists: BRIAN BATTLES, CHRISTIAN BOUDMAN, LISA DEANER, TONY DIEP, JENNIFER GERMAN, MARK ALAN LOSO, JEFF OLM, RICK SHICK, DAVE TAKAYAMA
Bonsai Compositors: VIRGINIA BOWMAN, BONJIN BYUN, CLINT COLVER, COLIN DROBNIS, MICHAEL “FFISH” HEMSCHOOT, JEP HILL, TIM LLEWELLYN, ETHAN A. ORMSBY, BOB PEITZMAN, AARON SMITH
Whale animation: DAVID SCHAUB
Lead Match Move Artists: JEFF W. SMITH, JOSEPH THOMAS
Match Mover Artists: JOANIE KARNOWSKI, RACHEL T. NICOLL
Matte painter: DAVID BLEICH
Additional paintings: DIGITAL BACKLOT
Texture Painters: DONNA TRACY, JOHN MCGEE
Rotoscope Lead Artist: MAURA N. ALVAREZ
Rotoscope Artists: LEA LAMBERT, LANELLE MASON, LOREE PERRETT, JOHN SHOURT, JAMES VALENTINE
Visual Effects Digital Coordinators: JENNIFER JUEN, SKYE LYONS, ERIC SCOTT
Visual Effects Production Assistant: TIMOTHY MICHAEL CAIRNS
Visual Effects Editor: GUY T. WIEDMANN
Visual Effects Avid Editor: JOHN BERRI
Negative line-up: DEE STORM
Lead Technical Assistant: JEFF DILLINGER
Technical Assistants: ROSENDO SALAZAR, TODD HARA, GARRICK MCLAUGHLIN, MARCO VIDAURRE, KENDRICK SUTHERLAND
Director of Interactive Compositing: DAWN GUINTA
HSC Production Manager: THOMAS F. FORD IV
Visual Effects Accountant: ROBB MILLER
Digital Color Timer: JOHN NICOLARD
Assistant Digital Color Timer: ANTHONY HARRIS
Systems Engineering Department Manager: ALBERTO VELEZ
Senior Systems Engineer: DEAN MIYA
Senior Video/Hardware Engineer: MICHAEL TRUJILLO
System Engineer: NICK BALI
Video Engineer: OLIN KIMBERLY
Director of Software: AMIT AGRAWAL
Lead Software Engineer: MANSON JONES
Software engineers: BRIAN HALL, BRUCE NAVSKY
Senior VFX Video Editor: RON VARGAS
Input-Output Supervsior: DENNIS WEBB
Lead Film Recordist: DERRICK QUARLES
Lead Scanning Technician: CHRISTOPHER ARREOLA
VP of Technical Operations: BILL VILLARREAL
VP of Digital Productions: STAN SZYMANSKI
Executive VP and General Manager: TIM SARNOFF
Additional visual effects: TRAVELLING PICTURES: CHRIS WINTERS, AMY CARBACK, SAM MARROCCO, JOHN WILLETTE, SHEENA DUGGAL
