“Toshiba Time Sculpture” by The Mill
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 03
Title:
- Toshiba Time Sculpture
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- The Mill
Description:
Using a ground-breaking new filming technique, Toshiba’s “Time Sculpture” is the world’s first Matrix-style, 360-degree, moving-image, “bullet-time” commercial.
The Mill team supervised a shoot that relied on construction of a purpose-built camera rig to support 200 Toshiba Gigashot HD camcorders. The camcorders were aligned and linked together to create a 360-degree inward view of the circular set that captured a series of separate moving images, which were brought together later to form one seamless action sequence using the highest number of moving image cameras ever used in a film sequence.
Almost 20 terabytes of video data were used to create the final film. The Mill used an immense storage device with a 20-TB capacity to hold 19.5 TBs of footage, making it one of the biggest jobs any VFX house has ever undertaken. The sheer size of this project required the very best from every department: The Mill’s data pipeline management team; Juan Brockhaus, the 3D pre-visualisation artist who brought the project to life at conception; and the extensive Flame assist and technical support team, headed by lead Flame artist Richard de Carteret.
Software:
Baselight, Flame, Floctane, XSI
Additional Contributors:
Director: Mitch Stratten
Agency: Grey London
Producer: Rebecca Popel
Production Company: Hungryman
Producer: Sally Newsom
Editing Company: The Whitehouse
Editor: Christophe Williams
Post Production: The Mill
Producer: Chris Batten
Telecine: James Bamford, Mick Vincent
Lead Flame: Richard de Carteret
Smoke: Huss, JP, John Thornton
3D Supervisor: Juan Brockhaus
