“The Cambrian Burgess Shale Creatures: Early Evolution of Animals” by Fujitsu Limited
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Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1999 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 1999:
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Title:
- The Cambrian Burgess Shale Creatures: Early Evolution of Animals
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Fujitsu Limited
Description:
In this video of the Cambrian sea bottom more than 500 million years ago, beautiful small creatures move along the sea floor. Their bizarre shapes were reconstructed from fossils, which were discovered in the Burgess Shale of western Canada.The complete animation is presented on an interactive system in the Gamagori Natural History Museum in Japan.
Hardware:
SGI O2, Power Challenge XL Dell NT Workstation
Software:
Alias|Wavefront Maya, Composer Discreet Inferno
Additional Contributors:
Director: Tetsuhiko Awaji
Producer: Shun-ichi Shimizu
Science Supervisor: Simon Conway Morris
Science Illustrator: Richard Tibbitts
Contributors: Mitsunori Kabashima, Hiroki Ogino, Ryu Nakai, Kenji Tanaka,
Yujiro Hato, Takeshi Nakayama, Chihiro Miyagawa, Masanari Miyoshi, Masaru Manabe, Yutaka Shiga, Tomoaki Yokota
