“Data Driven: The Story of Franz K.” by Landreth
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1993 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 1993:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 21
Title:
- Data Driven: The Story of Franz K.
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC)
Description:
This piece is a presentation testbed to evaluate and test data representation techniques in the context of human character animation. These techniques include volume-filling rendering, dense particle systems, audio mapping, and human facial expression mapping.
Hardware:
HARDWARE: Silicon Graphics 310 VGXT, 240 GTX,
Personal Irises, Indigo Elans
Software:
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: SOFTIMAGE Inc. 4D Creative Environment,
NCSA particle modeler and renderer, NCSA
voxel modeler and renderer.
Additional Contributors:
Producer
North Carolina Supercomputing Center (a division of MCNC)
Contributors
Director, Animator: Christopher Landreth;
Visualization Development: Dave Bock, Tom Palmer (Cray Research Inc.)
Sound, Sonification: Robin Bargar
System Administration: Rich Misenheimer
Computational Data: Jeff Knerr (smoke transport simulations), William Katz (Neurosurgical Visualization Lab, University of Virginia) (voxel head data), Gottfreid Meyer-Kress (chaotic facial animation data).
Post-produced by: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Editor: Robert Patterson
Titles: Lynn Gephardt;
Audio Post Production: Jay Rosenstein
Narrator: Vivian Chelette
Character animation software courtesy of. SOFTIMAGE Inc.
Special Thanks
Donna Cox, Vince Jurgens, Ray Idaszak, Todd Seeman
Sponsor: North Carolina Supercomputing Center (a division of MCNC)
