“Stealth” by Digital Domain, Inc.
Conference:
Title:
- Stealth
Length:
- 3:00
Director(s):
Description:
“Stealth” is a photorealistic, live-action film thrill ride. Digital Domain avoided the physical constraints of filming actual planes by creating CG aircraft that appear photographically captured and move like physical aircraft. Particular attention was paid to the interaction of the airplanes and their environments. We created all manner of visible atmospheric interactions of the airplanes with air and water, such as supersonic shockwaves, engine exhaust, condensation trails, vortex-induced vapor trails, and wake-turbulence interaction with clouds and fire. The environments were created using Terragen and other digital tools in order to maintain photorealistic quality. This gives us the ability to create any kind of terrain and allows our camera to fly freely over every location. The terrain was modified to suit the action, but the natural gradients and proportions dictated by nature were incorporated. In addition to creating terrain, we created photorealistic sky environments with weather, including rain, snow, fog, and light-ning. Sequence choreography and direction required us to create digital fire as seen in the gaseous fuel cloud that ignites into a rapidly burning ring of fire and smoke, culminating in a massive explosion.
Additional Contributors:
Director: Rob Cohen, Digital Domain
Producers: Neal Moritz, Lara Ziskin
CONTRIBUTORS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Joel Hynek
Visual Effects Producer: Julian Levi
Digital Effects Supervisor: Kelly Port
Computer Graphics Supervisors: Markus Kurtz, Vernon R. Wilbert Jr.
Compositing Supervisor: Bryan Grill
Digital Production Manager: Suzanne Buirgy
CG Effects Sequence Leads: Robert A.D. Frick, Johnny Gibson, Garman Herigstad
CG Effects Animators: Mir Zafar Ali, Charles Anderson, Dimitre N. Berberov, Steven Blakey, Todd A. Boyce, Joseph Cavanaugh, Todd Dufour, Michael Edland, Kent Estep, Stuart Gordon, Cody Harrington, Jongwoo Heo, Joseph E. Jackman, Piotr Karwas, Dorian Knapp, Joshua Krall, Andrew Lyons, Jason Mayer, Andrew Paules, Thomas Pushpathadam, Nordin Rahhali, Youngsam Suh, Alfred Urrutia, Chris Yang
CG Animation Lead: Erik T. Gamache
CG Animators: Nancy Adams, Richard Curby, Austin Eddy, Toby M. Haruno, Peter Nye, Patrick Perez, Jayson Price, Jeffrey Schanz, Scott Tessier, Michael Ryan Warner, Doug Wolf, Sammy Wong
Character Set-Up Artist: Paul Jordan
CG Terrain Lead: Brad K. Herman
CG Terrain Artists: Gordon Chapman, Lucio Flores, Marten Larsson, Kent Lidke, Nikki Makar, Young Il Pyo
CG Modeling Lead: Andrew Wilkoff
CG Modeling Artists: Andrew John Bradbury, Steve Graves, Errol Lanier
CG Lighting Lead: Esdras Varagnolo
CG Lighting Artists: Lynn Baksinski, Patrick Finley, Gonzalo H. Garramuno, Eric W. Hanson, Matthew Henderson, Tulio Hernandez, Bruce Jurgens, Asim Khan, Kimberley Liptrap, Shannon McGee, Kevin McGowan, Rory McLeish, Scott Metzger, Christopher Nichols, Maxim Okazaki, Erick Schiele, Diana Sear, Riccardo Zanettini
3D Integration Lead: David Niednagel
3D Integration Artists: Geoffrey Baumann, Richard Enders, Shelley Larocca, Ross Mackenzie, Thomas Schultz, Craig Van Dyke
Technical Development Leads: David Blumenfeld, Swen Gillberg, Jens Zalzala
Technical Developers: Charles Abou Aad, John Courte, Steve Galle, Jonah Hall, Christopher N. Harvey, Charles Henrich, Jason Iversen, Alan Kapler, Shoichi Matsubara, Michael Meckler, Paul George Palop, Eric Scheidemantle, Hector Anthony Serenil, Scot Shinderman, Leonardo Szew, Remy Torre
Digital Compositing Leads: Brian Begun, Paul Kirwan, Lou Pecora
Digital Compositors: Gianni M. Aliotti, Ted S. Andre, Eric M. Beaver, Krista E. Benson, Alette Boyce, Eric Bruneau, Gimo Chanphianamvong, Dennis Davis, Kevin Ellis, Joseph C. Farrell, Quentin Frost, Scott Gastellu, Michael Harbour, Jessica Harris, Chia Chi Hu, Paul Kirsch, James Kuroda, Paul J. Lambert, Kenneth Littleton, Lawrence Littleton, David Lockwood, Michael Maloney, Michael Melchiorre, Carlos Morales, Marc Morissette, Adam Moura, Robert Nederhorst, Davy Nethercutt, Ethan Ormsby, Marc Dominic Rienzo, Olivier P. Sarda, Jason Selfe, John Tissavary, Eric Weinschenk, Deborah Wiltman
Digital Matte Painters: Max Gabl, Ronald A. Gress, Metin Gungor
Digital Texture Paint Lead: Nicholas Lloyd
Digital Texture Painters: Viraj Andrew Bunnag, Brian Ripley, Song Tiang Teo
Digital Rotoscope/Paint Lead: Lee Croft
Digital Rotoscope/Paint Artists: Joshua Bolin, Jeff Kim, Karin Last, Antonio Torres, Pablo Wang, Byron Werner, Shannon Wiggins, Nicole Yoblonski
CG Previsualization Lead: Brian Pohl
CG Previsualization Artists: Jose Acevedo, Richard Almodovar, John P. Allardice, Sebastian Bilbao, Pierre Chastain, Duane Floch, Chris Gallagher, David Hodgins, Kris Kapp, Laurent Lavigne, Michael Neely, Ira Shain
Software Engineers: John Flynn, Daniel Maskit, Carl Magnus Wrenninge
Visual Effects Editor: Debra Wolff
Visual Effects Avid Editor: Mitchell Glaser
Color Graders: Todd Sarsfield, Chris Sauides
Visual Effects Production Coordinator: Shad Davis
Digital Effects CG Coordinators: Doug Badgett, Brady Doyle, Dave Godwin, Steve Griffith, Liz Hitt, Jamie Jota, Karen Sickles, Cat Thelia
Assistant Visual Effect Coordinator: Frank Borders
Technical Assistant: Nathaniel Dirksen
Visual Effects Production Assistants: S. Regina Carney, Joshua Fritchie, Chris Rock
Visual Effects Accountant: Bekki Misiorowski
Visual Effects Executive Producer: Nancy Bernstein
