“The Sum of All Fears” by Rhythm & Hues Studios
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2002 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2002:
Title:
- The Sum of All Fears
Length:
- 2:10
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Rhythm & Hues Studios
Description:
For Tom Clancy’s spy thriller featuring a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear weapon on U.S. soil, the visual effects team led by Glenn Neufeld and Rhythm & Hues’ Derek Spears applied volumetric rendering techniques to create the mushroom cloud and resulting blast shockwave. Realistic interaction and self shadowing provide believable cloud and dust elements without resorting to inferior “noisy sphere” methods or photographed elements.
Other more traditional CG elements, including missile launchers, silos, and helicopters were rendered using approximated dome and area lights to simulate soft shadowing phenomenon seen in the real world without the expense of global illumination methods.
Additional Contributors:
Production Supervisor: Vicki Thornton
3D Modelers: lan Hulbert, Nicolas Imhof, Tex Kadonaga, Nancy Klimley, Chien-Hsiung Wang
Production Coordinator: Onni Vosdoganes
Senior Software Engineer: Steven Taylor
Assistant Production Coordinator: Marisol Rivas
Pipeline Setup: Thomas Moore
Editorial Manager: Josh Margolies
Production Assistants: Silas Brandon, Garrett Bryan, Kelly Hurlic
Visual Effects Editor: Zeke Morales
Director of Photography: Chris Duddy
Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Debbi Phillips
1st Assistant Cameramen: Mark Brown, Jim Thibo
Projectionist: Perry Petrzilka
Scan/Record Manager: Erik Akutagawa
2nd Assistant Cameramen: Mike Blauvelt, Giselle Brewton
Scan/Record Operators: Jeffrey Cilley, Jim Fleury, Phil Holland
Craft Service: Michelle Bauxal
Video Engineer: Greg Kozikowski
Gaffer: Rich Paisley
Sr. Accountant: Beth Andrus
Best Boy Electric: Stephan Paul
Publicist: Scot Byrd
Key Grip: Blake Pike
Render I/O Supervisor: Brandon Craig
Best Boy Grip: Tony Sommo
VFX Supervisor: Glenn Neufeld
Texture Painters: Meg Harders, Megan Omi, Travis Price, Lopsie Schwartz
Miniature Effects Consultant: Robert Spurlock
RHYTHM & HUES VISUAL EFFECTS CREW
Render Coordinators: Sally Bunasawa, Todd Daugherty, Mitch Fishman, Jonah Michaud, Nathan Ortiz, Garrett Pendergaft
Animator: Steve Ziolkowski
Pyrotechnic Supervisor: John Cazin
Visual Effects Supervisor: Derek T. Spears
Model Supervisor: Donald Pennington
Systems Operations Supervisor: Samson Bamimore
Effects Animators: Doug Bloom, Antoine Durr, Anders Ericson, Craig Halperin, Douglas Harsch, Liza Keith, Mike La Fave, Hideki Okano, Scotty Townsend: Julius Yang
Lead Painter: Laurah Grijalva
Visual Effects Producer: Jane Stephan
Systems Operators: Jesus Castillo, Daniel Collins, Ted Endow, Gregory Go, Carmela Mendoza
Lead Model Makers: Jim Towler, Dan Carter
Visual Effects Art Director: Doug Juhn
Matchmove Lead: Stephen Dobbs
Chief Technologist: Mark A. Brown
Nuclear CG Supervisor: Mike O’Neal
Matchmovers: Gaelle Morand, Lulu Simon, David Sudd, Brian Wells
Model Makers: Dave Chamberlain, Tamara Waters, Logan Payne, Joel Steiner, Dale Brady, Patrick Denver
Manager of Systems: Bob Froehlig
Conventional CG Supervisor: Caleb Howard
Coordinator: Richard Roiz Wolf
Inferno Lead: John Heller
Management Information Services: Gautham Krishnmurti, Rasoul Hajikhani
Digital Compositing Supervisor: Edwin Rivera
Inferno Artists: Laura Ashford, Ken Au, Yukiko Ishiwata, Cesar Romero
System Administrators: Greg Bradner, Walid Harmoush, Marc Hawson, Lance Kimes, Fred Simon, Kevin Tengan
Pyrotechnic Assistants: Brandon McLaughlin, Steve Austin, Eric Cook, Joe Kline, Lenny Zapien, Anthony Simonaitis, Richard Cordobes
Visual Effects Production Manager: Dan Foster
Digital Compositing Lead: David Gutman
Production Assistants: Shawn Conway, Howard Harnett
Production Executive: Joel Mendias
Visual Effects Coordinator: Denise Demarest
Executive Producer: Lee Berger
Digital Production Manager: Gene Kozicki
Digital Compositors: Chris Bergman, Bertha Garcia, Laura Hanigan, Perry Kass, Matt Kelly, Jeremy Nelligan, Lisa Pallaro, Jonathan Robinson, Andrew Schwartz, Deborah Wagner, Matt Wilson
MINIATURE EFFECTS CREW
Supervisor: Carlyle Livingston
3D Coordinator: Margie Stubbs
Producer: Tom Tucker
2D Coordinator: Paula Bonhomme
Roto Artist: Marvin Jones
Production Consultant: Steve Markowitz
Lighters: James Atkinson, Kent Estep, Keith McCabe
Matte Painters: Chris Consani, Cam De Leon, Alison Yerxa
