“The Monkey King” by Kriegman – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“The Monkey King” by Kriegman




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Title:


    The Monkey King

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Length:


    2:00

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Company / Institution / Agency:


  • Shadow Digital LLC

Description:


    This feature film trailer was created using a 300-year old art form called Bunraku puppetry, combined with state-of-the-art real-time virtual set production. Using Brainstorm software, SGI hardware, and high-resolution encoders, the real-time camera tracking data was entered in Maya for post rendering, requiring zero modifications to lock with HD1080 24P and final output to 35mm film. This dramatically reduces overall production costs, while permitting casual camera movement in a combined live action: real-time computer graphics and feature film production environment.


Additional Contributors:


    Producer: Donna Gigliotti
    VFX Supervisor: Paul Lacombe
    Production Designer: Chris Renaud
    Senior CG Artist: Jens Scott
    DP: Bruce Logan
    Chief Information Officer: Hans Anderson
    Senior Compositor: Lawrence Littleton
    Compositor: Jim Spieler
    Editor: Erica Levin
    Audio Supervisor: Matthew Galkin
    System Administrator: Tom Weber
    Rotoscope Artists: Sharon Braaten, Dale Aman, Peter Dufault

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