“Cortex Academy” by Mayer and Jeanne

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Conference:


SIGGRAPH Video Review:


Track:


    01

Title:


    Cortex Academy

Length:


    2:21

Director(s):


Description:


    “I cheated on you.” Confronted with this declaration, the different parts of the brain react to resolve the crisis.

Hardware:


    HARDWARE: 3D CGI work on AMD 1.2 Ghz, and dual P3 800 MHz CPU. Video editing on Apple G3. Compositing on SGI Onyx. Rendering farm: 12 CPUs.

Software:


    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Modeling, animation, rendering, and dynamics: Maya 4.5.
    Compositing: Inferno 5.0. Additional software: Avid. OS: Windows
    2000 Pro, Unix, Mac OS

Additional Contributors:


    Producer: GLpipa
    Compositing Artist: Aymeric Rochas
    Compositing Artist: Laurent Spillmaecker
    3D Artist Directors: Frédéric Mayer, Cédric Jeanne
    Technical Director: Lolet ONG
    3D Artists: Frédéric Mayer, Cedric Jeanne, Alexandra Hedeline, Lolet ONG
    Script and Voices: Francois Perusse

Additional Information:


    PRODUCTION
    Modeling: Polygons. Rendering technique used most: Standard
    Maya renderer, Depthmap Shadow, raytraced refections. Average
    CPU time for rendering per frame: approximately five minutes.
    Total production time: approximately 130 days

Animation / Video Overview:


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