“Fed Ex – Moon Office” by The Mill
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2007 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2007:
Title:
- Fed Ex - Moon Office
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- The Mill
Description:
The project, led by Mill VFX Supervisor Alex Lovejoy and CG Supervisor Yann Mabille, envisions the first FedEx office on the moon. One challenge with this spot was replacing all the heads of the FedEx employees, since the bodies were shot in 48 fps for moon-like motion, while alternative footage had to be shot at 24 fps to match the dialogue.
A huge effort from the Mill CG team was the set extension. Building on the photogrammetry technique the team often uses, the team surveyed the set by shooting reference photos that they later used to rebuild and extend the set virtually. Due to the spherical nature of the moon station, the team pre-built camera movements in XSI and reverse engineered angles to show how elements such as the desks would have appeared in relation to the camera. To get the authentic space feeling, the team composited 10 different motion-control passes and multiple elements shot at high speed.
Additional Contributors:
Product: FedEx
Title: Moon Office
Agency: BBDO NY
Producer: Elise Greiche
Production Company: Partizan LA
Director: Traktor
VFX: The Mill NY
VFX Producer: Jo Arghiris, Wendy Garfinkle
VFX Supervisors: Alex Lovejoy, Yann Mabille
Lead Flame Artist: Alex Lovejoy
Flame Artists: Mark French, Gavin Wellsman, Richard de Carteret, Cole Schreiber
Smoke Artists: Tristian Wake, Jeff Robins
Assist Combustion Artists: Ross Goldstein, Anu Nagaraj, Winston Lee, Gigi Ng
Support: Mary Casey, Gigi Ng
Telecine Artist: Fergus McCall
Assistant Telecine Artist: Alex Maxwell
Telecine Producer: Angela Botta
CG Producer: Asher Edwards
CG Supervisor/Lead Animator: Yann Mabille
CG Artists: Wyatt Savarese, Douglas Luka, Aron Hjartarson, Jimmy Kiddel, Keith Kim, Will Robertson, Michael Heinz, Jin Choi, Pete Hamilton
