“Sucker” by Brenner
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2004 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2004:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 19
Title:
- Sucker
Length:
- 3:00
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- UCLA
Description:
Made at the UCLA Animation Workshop, “Sucker” follows the exploits of a candy-loving girl and a psychopath dressed in a bunny suit. The story was conceived shortly after the most asinine fight of the animator’s adult life, and while “Sucker” is based on true events,no one was actually dropped over a snowy cliff. The animated short was approached like the classic horror film “Psycho,” but it works under the premise: What if Marion Crane (Janet Leigh’s character)fought back, with Mace? “Sucker” takes place on a bleak, snowy plateau whose only point of interest is an icy lamp post that becomes the anchor for a greedy tongue and a fight to the death over a candy cane.
Hardware:
HARDWARE: PC and Mac, both dual CPU, 1 GB RAM. Graphics card: Fire GL2.
Software:
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Modeling, animation, and rendering: Maya 4.5. Compositing: After
Effects 5.5, Premiere 6.5. Additional software: Photoshop 7, Sound
Edit 16. OS: Windows 2000 and OS X.
Additional Contributors:
Producer: Ellen Brenner
Additional Information:
PRODUCTION
Modeling: NURBS and polygons. Rendering technique used most:Maya renderer. Average CPU time for rendering per frame: approxi-mately two minutes. Total production time: 240 days.
