“Mini “Martians”” by Palmer
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Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2002 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2002:
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SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 19
Title:
- Mini “Martians”
Length:
- 1:00
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Passion Pictures
Description:
The aliens arrive in London. The Mini sees them and leads them on a chase to the countryside, obliterating various landmarks along the way. The pod gets stuck in a cattlegrid and topples, revealing its alien driver. “The challenge for Passion’s CG department was twofold,” says Cara Speller. “Firstly, we had to match the camera tracking in the animation to the live action, and secondly we had to render the animation to film resolution, which meant we had to upgrade our render farm.” The animation was produced using Lightwave and Messiah, and Digital Fusion was used for the test compositing.
Additional Contributors:
Producer: Cara Speller
Client: BMW
FX Animation: Geoff Suttor
Agency: WCRS
Design: Paul Catling, John Robertson
Creatives: Yu Kung, Andy Brittan
Offline Editor: Kevan O’Brien
Producer: Sally Lipsius
Executive Producer: Andrew Ruhemann
Live Action Company: Gorgeous Enterprises
Post Production: John Hollis, Tom Sparks
Producer: Suza Horvat
Editor: Paul Watts
CG Animation Company: Passion Pictures
CG Animation Director: Phil Dale
Visual FX Supervisor: Chris Knott
CG Animation: Phil Dale, David Sigrist
Texture & Lighting Artists: Stuart Hall, Robin Konieczny, Matt Westrup
