“Shark Attack Sequence from “James and the Giant Peach”” by Sony Pictures Imageworks
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1996 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 1996:
Title:
- Shark Attack Sequence from “James and the Giant Peach”
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Sony Pictures Imageworks
Description:
This excerpt produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks for the Walt Disney release of Henry Selick’s “James and the Giant Peach” (Skellington Productions) includes the shark attack sequence. The video clip features stop motion and computer animation combined in complex digital composites. Computer graphics elements include a mechanical shark; an ocean of waves, spray and foam; and the flock of seagulls integrated with scanned footage of the stop-motion puppets and sky background. The resulting effect is intended to give the computer-graphics characters and environments the look of stop-motion animation and to blend these elements into a single world.
Additional Contributors:
Producer: SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS
Visual Effects Supervisor: SCOTT E. ANDERSON
Visual Effects Producer: MICKEY MCGOVERN
Computer Graphics Supervisor: JEROME CHEN
Lighting Supervisor/Lead Animator: LOUIS CETORELLI
Animation Supervisor: HARRY WALTON
Senior Technical Director: RON BRINKMANN
Visual Effects Editor: AUDREY CHANG
Visual Effects Coordinator: JEANETTE VOLTURNO
Art Directors: MICHAEL SCHEFFE, JAMIE RAMA
Animators: ALLEN EDWARDS, ALEX SOKOLOFF, DAVID VALLONE, PETER WARNER
Lead Compositors: HEATHER DAVIS, M. SCOTT MCKEE
Compositors: LISA FOSTER, STEVE KENNEDY
3D FX Animator: ARNAUD HERVAS
Particle Animators: MIKE PERRY, TIM TERAMOTO
Technical Director: MICHAEL TIGAR
Software Engineers: DEV MANNEMELA, ROBERT MINSK
Modeler: KEVIN HUDSON
Roto Artists: KIKI CANDELA, SUZY BROWN
Senior Technical Assistants: STEPHEN KOWALSKI, DAVID
TAKAYAMA
Technical Assistants: JANEL ALEXANDER, BILL BALL, JOHN DECKER
Production Assistants: NIKKI BELL, JASON HANEL
Runner: GUY WIEDMANN
I/O Supervisor: DENNIS WEBB
Lead Film Recordist: JOHN STRAUSS
Film Recording Technicians CHRIS LEONE, CHRIS TSONGAS
Editorial Supervisor: MICHAEL MOORE
Director of Software: CAROLINE ALLEN
Senior System Engineer: ALBERTO VELEZ
Systems Engineer: DEAN MIYA
System Administrator/Resource Manager: TED ALEXANDRE
System Technician: JESSE CARLISLE
Digital Production Manager/Resource Manager: GAYLE REZNIK
Digital Production Coordinator: KATYA CULBERG
Administrative Office Coordinator: CATHY DEUTMEYERHead of Digital Production: BILL SCHULTZ
Executive Producer: GEORGE MERKERT
General Manager: BILL BIRRELL
