“Frozen Gods” by Debuchi – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Frozen Gods” by Debuchi




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Title:


    Frozen Gods

Conference:


SIGGRAPH Video Review:


Length:


    1:05

Director(s):


Company / Institution / Agency:


  • High Tech Laboratory Japan Inc.

Description:


    Some animals are gods(Kamui) for the Ainu people (a minority tribe living in the northern islands of Japan). I wanted to create a new mythology for them. In this work, imaginary animals living in cold lands are introduced which are rendered by a new fur-renderer named “image.”

Hardware:


    HARDWARE: IBM RISC/6000
    IRIS 4D/70GT
    3Space Digitizers

Software:


    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Limage
    Digital Dynamatian System
    Wavefront


Additional Contributors:


    ARTIST: Ryaichira Debuchi
    MUSIC: Yasuhiro Kawasaki
    ASSITANT DESIGNER: Ivaka Kuroda

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