“The Ghost and the Darkness” by Sony Pictures Imageworks
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1997 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 1997:
Title:
- The Ghost and the Darkness
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Sony Pictures Imageworks
Description:
Digital artists seamlessly integrated live-action lions with computer- generated elements to add intensity and suspense to the film. The lighting was digitally altered to allow left/right mirroring to correct lion eyelines. The lions’ color and manes were also digitally altered.
Additional Contributors:
Visual Effects by Sony Pictures Imageworks Culver City, Californina
Visual Effects Supervisor: Tim McGovern
Visual Effects Supervisor/Producer: Stuart Robertson
Visual Effects Executive Producer: George Merkert
Visual Effects Producer: Joan Collins
Computer Graphic Supervisor: Ron Brinkmann
Visual Effects Art Director: Marty Kline
Senior Technical Designer: Jerome Chen
Visual Effects Editor: J.W. Kompare
Compositors: Scott McKee, Bob Peitzman, Colin Campbell, Randy Brown, Kiki Candela, Andrea Sholer, Megan Omi, Steve Kennedy, Isa AbdulBari Alsup
Digital Effects Animator: Mike Perry
Lead Rotoscope Artist: Nancy Oppenheim
Digital Painter/Rotoscope Artist: Suzy Brown
Rotoscope Artists: Maura Alvarez, Nancy Evans, John Shourt, Sue Kornfeld, Art David
High Speed Compositors: Mark Holmes, Sheena Duggal, Kristen Trattner, Ann Monn, Kelly Pappas
Assistant Visual Effects Editor: Guy Wiedmann
Visual Effects Coordinator: Chris Bailey
Visual Effects Coordinator: Ryan Berg
Computer Graphics Coordinator: Amy Hollywood Wixson
Visual Effects Assistant Coordinator: Yolie Moreno
Assistant Visual Effects Editor: Guy Wiedmann
Software Designers: Amit Agrawal, Chu Tang
Visual Effects Illustrator/Matte Artist: Ivo Horvat
Visual Effects Storyboard Artist: Peter Gornstein
Digital Production Manager: Gayle Reznik
High Speed Compositing Production Manager: Dawn Guinta
Lead Technical Assistant: John Decker
Technical Assistants: Doug Yoshida, John Clark
High Speed Compositing Technical
Assistants: Tom Ford, Steve Dobbs
Head of Digital Production and Engineering: Bill Schultz
I/O Supervisor: Dennis Webb
Film Recording Software: John Strauss
Lead Film Recordist: Chris Leone
Film Recordist: Ken Kurras
Location Photography Visual Effects Producer: Mark Oppenheimer
Visual Effects Director of Photography: Chuck Schuman S.O.C.
Motion Control Programmer: Kevin Fitzgerald
Visual Effects Assistant Cameraperson: Ned Martin
Electronics Engineer: David Cornelius
Head of Camera Department: Marcus Kraus
Chief Mechanical Design Engineer: Barry Walton
Camera Equipment Coordinator: Allen Mansour
Mechanical Engineer: Chris Barker
Director of Systems Engineering: Alberto Velez
Senior Systems Engineer: Dean Miya, Todd Outten
Systems Administrators: Steve Kowalski, Rusty Case, David Takayama
Systems Coordinator: Katya Culberg
Software Coordinator: Audrea Topps Harjo
Production Assistants: Joy Kennelly, Lloyd Moss, Melissa Barber
