“The Golden Compass” by Framestore
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2008 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2008:
Title:
- The Golden Compass
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Framestore
Description:
“The Golden Compass” (Oscar-nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects) displays the proprietary fluid simulation techniques recognized in 2008 with a Scientific and Technical Academy Award, as well as the high degree of difficulty in creating believable human-daemon interactions.
Additional Contributors:
Cast: Marisa Coulter, Nicole Kidman, Lord Asriel, Daniel Craig, Lyra Belacqua, Dakota Blue Richards, Iorek Byrnison (Voice), Ian McKellen, Serafina Pekkala, Eva Green, Lee Scores, Sam Elliott
Visual Effects by Framestore CFC
Visual Effects Supervisor: Ben Morris
Visual Effects Producer: Mei-Ming Casino
Animation Supervisor: Dadi Einarsson
CG Supervisors: Andy Kind, Laurent Hugueniot
Compositing Supervisor: Ivan Moran
Digital Environment Supervisor: Martin Macrae
Creature Supervisor: Matthew Hughes
R&D and Effects Supervisor: Alex Rothwell
Visual Effects Co-Producer: Charles Howell
Lead Animators: Craig Bardsley, Pablo Grillo, Philip Morris, Max Soloman, James Farrington
Animators: Rosie Ashforth, Antoine Birot, Gavin Boyle, Ross Burges, Hyun Chul Jung, Daniel Copping, James Cunliffe, Vincent Devay, Jim Dodd, Stuart Ellis, Arslan Elvers, Catherine Elvidge, Daniel Gerhardt, Jordi Girones, Nicolas Gueroux, Santiago Hurtado, Laurent Laban, Martin Lanzinger, Andrew Lawson, Barth Maunoury, Nathan McConnel, Catherine Mullan, Rhiannon Nicholas, Kevin O’Sullivan, Simon Pickard, Pablo Plaisted, Alison Sanders, Brad Silby, Simon Thistlewaite, Philip To, Tim Reischmann, Romain Vacher
Lead Technical Directors: Carl Bianco, Nick Epstein, Brad Falk, Howard Fuller, Ricky Kang, John Peter Li, Paul Oakley, Marine Poirson, Saul Reid, Rob Richardson, Chris Thomas, Neil Weatherley
Technical Directors: Jason Baker, Mark Bailey, Harry Bardak, Stephen Borneman, Michael Borhi, Peter Bowmar, Jose Burgos, Matthieu Burri, Andrew Butler, Robert Byrne, Mark Chataway, Gordon Curtis, Tamir Diab, Laura Dias, David Feuillatre, Ummi Gudjonsson, Laurent Hamery, Voldymyr Kazantsev, Chris King, Michael Jones, Bruno Lesieur, Joe Leveson, Chishan Liu, Patrick Lowry, Ulf Lundgren, Pietro Materossi, Oliver McCluskey, David Menkes, Steven Moor, Robert O’Neill, Mark Osborne, Alessandro Pepe, Rob Richardson, Sagar Rothod, Andy Rowan-Robinson, Tim Schnellbeck, Penn Stevens, Wilson Stockman, Martin Tardiff, Paul Timpson, Marc Toscano, Dan Wade, Nathan Walster, Todd Widdup, Jason Williams, Mohand Zennadi
Lead Effects Artists: Miles Green, Andrew Hayes, Joe Thornley
Effects Artists: Jeren Chen, Jacob Clark, Dean Grubb, Alexander Panaskevich, Vishal Patel, Gregory Peczinka, Sandy Sutherland
Lead Compositors: Ben Aickin, David Bowman, Helen Bunker, Jonathan Fawkner, Julien Goldsbrough, Pete Jopling, Patricia Llaguno, Christian Manz, Adrian Metzelaar, Alex Payman, Sirio Quintavalle, Denis Scolan, Matthew Twyford, Kate Windibank
Compositors: Giacomo Bargellesi, Ronan Broudin, Scott Chambers, Don Crawford, Luke Drummond, Katherine Durant, Geoffrey Givry, Bryan Jones, Zoe Lamaera, Yann Larochette, Martin Mueller, Bruce Nelson, Gustaf Nilsson, Steve Parsons, John Peck, Ian Plumb, Travis Porter, Martin Riedel, Richard Roberts, Jeremy Sawyer, Wenrui Seddon, Martin Taylor, Guillaume Terrien, Sanju Travis, Giuliano Vigano, Tim Young
Digital Matte Painters: Dark Hoffman, Max Dennison, Nathan Hughes, Kevin Jenkins, Joseph McLamb, Kristi Valk
Software Tools Group: Michael Blain, George Harker
Lead Modellers: Alessandro Bonora, Stuart Penn, Jonas Thornquist
Modellers: Atanas Atanasov, Adam Dewhirst, Andreas Maaninka, Donald Pan, Romain Segurado
Lead Riggers: David Short, Felix Balbas
Riggers: Morgan Evans, Matthieu Goutte, Catalin Niculescu, Thomas Pouwels
Lead Texture Artist: Daren Horley
Texture Artists: Laurence Peguy, Jean-David Solon, Leigh Van Der Byl, Andy Wheater
Rotoscoping Artists: David Aulds, Jarnail Bhachu, Alex Cumming, James Fleming, Nicha Kumkeaw, Sam Osborne, Daniel McRae, Ephraim Mwakandu, Aled Prosser
Assistant Technical Directors: Conor O’Mara, Greg Young
Technical Support: Matthew Barnett, Luca Damiani
Matchmovers: Carl Jackson, Christina Boon, Daniel Lloyd Wood, Ericka Bermingham, Fred Heymans, Lee Dexter, Radhika Patel, Michael Thompson, Nick Reed, Simon Carlile, Tom Bunnell
Visual Effects Coordinators: Alexandra Daunt Watney, Danielle Morley, Jennifer Loughnan
Visual Effects Editors: Ilona Blythe, Tabitha Dean, Pete Forson, Lars Vinther