“Sucker” by Brenner


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  • ©Ellen Brenner  UCLA


Conference:


  • SIGGRAPH 2004
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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.

Animation / Video Overview:


Type: