“Respire, Mon Ami: Breathe, My Friend” by Ringling School of Art and Design
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Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2007 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2007:
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SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 16
Title:
- Respire, Mon Ami: Breathe, My Friend
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- 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
