“Primeval” by Payne, Gunn and Murphy
Conference:
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Title:
- Primeval
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Framestore CFC
Description:
“Primeval” is a sci-fi TV drama serial, for which Framestore has produced a selection of photorealCG creatures (both “real” and imaginary) that interact extensively with humans and environments,including supporting cast members.
Over the serial’s seven-episode run, our team supplied the production with seven new CG creatures(seen in some 350 shots) and 350 digital VFX and CG enhancements. Around 60 people worked over a period of nine months to bring the bestiary to life. The creature work was done entirely inMaya, rendered in Mental Ray, and composited in Shake.
Challenges overcome included pipelining of the entire project in the same way a film would be created. The tool set we use for TV is now the same as the one we use on films, which offers our team the chance to draw on some of the in-house R&D work that the film teams have built up over the years.
Additional Contributors:
Cast:
Professor Nick Cutter: Douglas Henshall
Connor Temple: Andrew Lee Potts
Abby Maitland: Hannah Sperritt
Helen Cutter: Juliet Aubrey
Sir James: Lester Ben Miller
Stephen Hart: James Murray
Created and Produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV
VFX Supervisor: Christian Manz
Shoot Supervisors: Sirio Quintavalle, Rob Duncan
VFX Producer: Matt Fox
VFX Line Producer: Pauline Piper
VFX Shoot Coordinators: Jon Keene, Eoin Hegan
VFX Coordinator: Chloe Harrison
VFX Production PA: Claire Galpin
VFX Editors: Carey Williams, Russell Pawson
Lead Modeller: Will Brand
Modellers: Donald Pan, Camilla Wong, Jean-David Solon
CG Rigger: Maximillian Mallmann
Lead Texture Artist and Creature Concept Designer: Daren Horley
Texture Artists: Andrew Wheater, Elsa Santos, Jamie Bowers, Jason Horley, Jean-David Solon, Michael Borhi
Lead Animator: Mark Brocking
Animators: Alfonso Sicilia, Arda Uysal, Arno Franzi, Benn Garnish, Dan Blacker, Daniel Zettl, Darren Rodriguez, Ferran Casas, Gabriel Gelade, Jonathon Symmonds, Ken Doyle, Kevin O’Sullivan, Liam Russell, Lina Kouznetsova, Martin Lanzinger, Mattieu Vig, Mehdi Leffad, Mike Ford, Peter Triggs, Romain Vacher
Head of Tracking: Michael Thompson
Lead Tracker: Radhika Patel
Trackers: Carl Jackson, Daniel Buhigas, Daniel Lloydwood, Frederick Heymans, Lee Dexter, Mark Tudor-William, Meena Ayittey, Sabina Bejasa-Dimmock, Toby Winder, James Liu
Lead TD: Jason Mayo
Pipeline Lead: Chi Kwong Lo
TD/Lighting: Gordon Curtis, Maël François, Ohkba Ameziane-Hassani, Richard Bell (ATD), Talli Peled, Thomas Biller
Lead Compositor: Helen Bunker
Compositors: Adrian Metzelaar, Aled Prosser, Dan Pearce, David Aulds, Jackie Rowson, Jan Adamczyk, Jarnail Bhachu, Luke Drummond, Mark Payne, Patrick Nagle, Rebecca Manning, Steve Parsons, Tara Walker
Paint and Roto: Sam Osbourne, Frederick Heymans, Margaret Walby, Melissa Widup, Sarah Juniper
Editorial: Roz Lowrie, Tabitha Dean, Turea Blyth
Head of Scanning: Andy Burrows
Scanning: Jimmy Saul, Joseph Hoare, Veronica Marcano
Cyber Scanning: Sean Varney, Guy Hauldren
Head of Data Ops: Matt Barnett
Data Ops: Clym Dodds, Lawrence Smith, Mikael Jaegerjensen
Head of Digital Lab: Ben Baker
Colorist: Brian Krijgsman
Conform Editor: Will Harris
Digital Grade Producers: Erika Bruning, Mike Morrison
Conform Editors: Annabel Wright, Stuart Nippard
Data Op: David Johnston
Dustbusters: Louie Alexander, Nick Stanley
Production: Impossible Pictures
