“Lucia” by Felix Gönnert Animation
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 04
Title:
- Lucia
Length:
- 7:20
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Felix Gönnert Animation
Description:
Wandering about the hospital by night, Lucia discovers several X-rays. The image of a skull fires her imagination, and before long, dream and reality begin to blur…
The aim of this work is to tell the story through the perspective of the main character. The animation and atmosphere tell the story without words. Lucia overcomes the fear of her illness through her imagination.
The aesthetic of X-ray imges and the look of computer-generated pictures were the starting point for the design of this short. Both have artificial and organic elments I could play with. The character design resembles the appearance of puppets. I made this decision to avoid complexity, and I thought it might work because the story is told from the perspective of a child. Fluid effects in Maya helped me to achieve the desired look of smoky forms in the X-ray world.
Hardware:
Dell Precision workstations
Software:
Maya 4.5, Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Adobe Premiere 6.5, After Effects 5.5, Avid
Additional Contributors:
Director and Producer: Felix Gönnert, Felix Gönnert Animation, Konrad Wolf
CONTRIBUTORS
Director and Screenplay Modeling and Animation Shading and Lighting X-Ray Pictures Research: Felix Gönnert
Editor: Gregor Wille
Cloud Animation: Josef Risling
Moon Photography: Torsten Krökel
X-Ray Pictures Research: Felix Gönnert, Gerhard Spillner, Jürgen Uhlendorf
Hospital Set Dressing: Sonja Winzenried
Additional Set Dressing: Tobias Laarmann, Michael Labus
Foley Artist: Günter Röhn
Music and Sound: Max Knoth
Cardiologic Sounds: Bruno Moreigne
Re-Recording Mix: Matthias Schurz
Girl’s Voice: Philine Wittur
Music Recording Engineer: Ingo Baier
