“Saving Private Ryan” by Industrial Light & Magic
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1999 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 1999:
Title:
- Saving Private Ryan
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Industrial Light & Magic
Description:
ILM was called on to recreate Omaha Beach on the third day after the Allied Forces’ D-Day invasion. Motion-control passes of the empty beach were composited with motion-control pass-es of thousands of soldiers. Hundreds of computer-generated period ships were animated and rendered. A combination of CG, digital matte, and proprietary Sabre system techniques were used to complete the “story-telling” shot.
Additional Contributors:
Visual Effects Supervisor: Stefen Fangmeier
Co-Visual Effects Supervisor: Roger Guyett
Visual Effects Producer: Kim Bromley
Associate Visual Effects Producer: Heather Smith
Visual Effects Art Director: Alexander Laurant
Color Timing Supervisor: Kenneth Smith
CG Sequence Supervisor: Gregor Lakner
Sabre Supervisor: Pablo Helman
CG Artists: Kathleen Beeler, Terry Chostner, Gonzalo Escudero, Bridget Maria Goodman, Joanne Hafner, Mary McCulloch, Jennifer Devar McKnew, Christa Starr, Paul Theren
Sabre Artists: Caitlin Content, Chad Taylor
Digital Matte Artist: Matthew Hendershot
Visual Effects Production Coordinator: Lori Arnold
Visual Effects Editor: Bill Kimberlin
Scanning Supervisor: Josh Pines
Visual Effects Camera Operator: Martin Rosenberg
Visual Effects Camera Assistant: Robert Hill
Lead Effects Technician: Geoff Heron
Effects Technician: Dan Nelson
Stage Technicians: Carl Assmus, Berny Demolski, Robert Doherty
Film Scanning Operator: George Gambetta
Negative Line-up: Tim Geiderman
Plate Restoration: Trang Bach-Jasko
Digital Production: Kathleen Michele Davidson, Jennifer Gonzalez, Garrick Meeker, Erin West
Digital Technologies: Danny J. Lee, Jeffrey Yost
Visual Effects Production Assistant: Amanda K. Montgomery
