“Respire, Mon Ami: Breathe, My Friend” by Ringling School of Art and Design – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Respire, Mon Ami: Breathe, My Friend” by Ringling School of Art and Design




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Title:


    Respire, Mon Ami: Breathe, My Friend

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  • Ringling School of Art and Design

Description:


    In this story set in France, a lonely child finds companionship in a friend who tags along on a series of small adventures that take them though multiple settings before leading up to a climactic life-and-death struggle.

    PRODUCTION:
    Modeling: Polygons, sub-d and NURBS
    Rendering: RenderMan for Maya
    Average frame-render time: seven minutes to two hours Total production time: seven months
    Production highlight: multiple point clouds stitched into a brick map that reduced render times in the town environ-ment from over three hours per frame to six minutes per frame.

Hardware:


    HP Workstations

Software:


    Maya 7, RenderMan, Shake, BodyPaint3D, Syflex, Photoshop, Premiere, Tsunami, Modo


Additional Contributors:


    Director: Chris Nabholz

    Producer: Ringling School of Art and Design

    Voice: Katherine Tanner

    Score: The Music Bakery

    Faculty Advisor: Heather Thomson

    Animation/Story: Chris Nabholz

    IT Department: Karissa Miller, Jennifer Bradley, Rosa Disla, Iva Lovell

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