“The Nature” by Asakawa

  • ©Jun Asakawa


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    20

Title:


    The Nature

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Company / Institution / Agency:


  • Dentsu Inc.

Description:


    Excerpts from this work produced for Osaka’s EXPO ’90 dramatically combine live action and computer graphics animation.

Hardware:


    HARDWARE: LINKS -2 (Original Custom made), SUN 4/280
    Silicon Graphics IRIS -40

Software:


    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Original


Additional Contributors:


    Produced by: Dentsu Inc./Tokyu Agency Inc. Client, The Ministry of Postal Services, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., and Kokusai-Denshindenwa Company
    Producer and Script: Madoka Katoh (Dentsu Inc.)
    Producer: Haruo Murao (Intervoice Inc.) Tatuhiko Akamatu (Cinesell Japan Inc.)
    Assistant Producer: Hiroshi Soma (Dentsu Prox Inc.)
    Assistant Director: Shinji Ootake
    Camera: Kiyoshi Nishiura
    Light: Noboru Mori
    Film Editing: Hideaki Inoue
    Music Composer: Akira Inoue
    Links Corporation-CG Staff CG and SPX Producer: Masaaki Taira
    CG Director: Hideki Nakano and Takahiko Akiyama
    Creator: Jyun Watanabe and Kimiko Kai
    Animator: Norio Saito
    Technical Manager: Kotaro Abe
    Technical Director: Masanori !hara, Takahiro Yamamoto, Yoshihisa Hirano and Koichi Noguchi
    Software Programmer: Toshio Tukada and Ahinji Tanaka
    System Engineer: Atushi Shiokawa
    Production Manager: Hiroyuki Seshita
    Tree Simulation: Cirado (France), Phillipe de Reffye, Daniel Barthelemyand Pierre Dinouard

    NAMCO CG Project-Creators: Kenji Watanabe, Kazutaka Shirato, Jyun Watanabe, Koichi Hiraga, Yasuo Ooba, Tohiaki Kato, Akiko Wakabayashi and Tatushi Tuboi
    Film Recording: Kodak !magic K.K.
    Nega Editing: Yoshio Naganuma
    Film Processing !magic Corporation
    Optical: Makoto Nakamura (Imagica)
    Timing: Yoshiyuke Kiga (Imagica)
    Optical Advisor: Yutaka Kawamura
    Music Producer: Akio Oomori
    Music Director: Naoto Sekiguchi
    Sound Effects: Masatoshi Nizumachi

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