“De Huisspitsmuis” by Toogood

  • ©Ben Toogood

Conference:


SIGGRAPH Video Review:


Track:


    11

Title:


    De Huisspitsmuis

Length:


    0:47

Director(s):


Company / Institution / Agency:


  • NCCA Bournemouth University

Description:


    A digital “Albert Durer,” a very well-executed study in motion and modelling. Ben models and animates the rat-like animal so “accu- rately” that his work has all the lifelike properties of a real creature even though it is totally artificial. The photo-realistic style and the accuracy of animation give this piece a vivid dreamlike quality.

Hardware:


    HARDWARE: PC single 1 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM. Rendering farm: 25 CPUs.
    Hardware rendering was used for final renders.

Software:


    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Modeling, animation, and dynamics: Maya 4. Rendering: PRman10.
    Compositing: Shake 2. Additional software: boujou for tracking.
    Custom software: project management tools. OS: Windows 2000.

Additional Contributors:


    Producer: NCCA, Bournemouth University
    Supervisor: Paula Callus

Additional Information:


    PRODUCTION
    Modeling: principally NURBS. Animation: keyframe (with some use
    of rotoscoping, and ‘mouse’ motion capture). Rendering technique
    used most: PRman for the majority of the rendering, complemented
    with some hardware rendering. Average CPU time for rendering per
    frame: approximately one hour. Total production time: nine months.

Animation / Video Overview:


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