“What Dreams May Come: The Painted World Sequence” by Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Inc.
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1999 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 1999:
Title:
- What Dreams May Come: The Painted World Sequence
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Inc.
Description:
For What Dreams May Come, 8.5 minutes of live-action photography were transformed into moving imagery in the style of 19th-century painters such as Casper David Friedrich and Claude Monet. Through unique, proprietary machine-vision-analysis software; 3D reconstruction techniques; existing computer graphic technologies, and digital compositing packages, new and traditional techniques were combined into a hybrid technology. The photograpy was digitally deconstructed to create new spatial, temporal, textural, and chromatic relationships that blend 19th-century painting with 21st-century technology.
Additional Contributors:
Production Companies: Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Inc., Interscope Communications, Metafilmics
Visual Effects Producer/Supervisor: Ellen M. Somers
Painted World Visual Effects Line Producer: Donna Langston
Visual Effects Superviors: Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks
Software Creator: Pierre Jasmin
Art Director: Joshua Rosen
3D Supervisor: Mike Schmidtt, Giant Killer Robots
Software Co-Creator: Peter Litwinowicz
CG Supervisors: Karen Ansel, Mobility, Inc., Scott Gordon, Shadowcaster
Peter G. Travers, Shadowcaster
Visual Effects Production Manager: Mimi Medel
Lead Compositors: John P. Nugent, Barney “XX” Robson, J.D. Cowles, Tim Crosbie, D-Film
Paint Animators: Edward Davis, Lunarfish, Marc Toscano, Talmage Watson
3D Techical Directors: Peter Oberdorfer, Giant Killer Robots John Volny, Mobility, Inc., Gerard Benjamin Pierre, John Vegher, Giant Killer Robots
Compositors: Daniel P. Rosen, Michael Ffish Hemschoot, Chris Ciampa, Mark Nettleton, John Cornejo, Grady Campbell, Amanda Evans, Alan Boucek
Animators: John Jakubowski, Grant Neisner, Claire Pegorier, Nick Phillips, Lunarfish, Sarma Banjuri, Dan Klem
Matte Painters: Tim Clark, Pulse Imaging, Caroline “Jett” Green
Art Department Design Assistant: Morgan Thomas
Concept Artist: Richard Kriegler
2D Prep: Hillary Johnson, Ingrid Overgard, Jarmilla Sefloya
Project Manager Research/Development: Kim Libreri
Software Research/Development: George Borshukov, Dan Piponi, Jeremy Yarbrow, Rudy Poots, Wayne Lytle, Tom Brigham, Ariane Veronneau, Robert Minsk, Shadowcaster, Jules Blumenthal, Chek Lim
Systems Manager: Steve Ginsberg
Systems Administration: Andrew Perkins, James Brown
Visual Effects Plate Producer: Jennifer Thomas
Location Reality Capture Supervisor: John Gaeta
Telemetry and Survey Lead: David Harvey
Telemetry and Survey Assistant: Tony Whalen
Laser Scanner Operators: Francois Herbin, Catco, Emily Pensak, Catco
Visual Effects Editors: Roy Berkowitz, Anthony Mark Vivirito
Film Recorder Operator: Greg Shimp
Production Office Coordinator: Jennifer Hannigan
Production Assistant: Romulo Adriano, Jr.
Tape Operators: Phillip Reed, Deborah Thomas, Todd Gill
Additional Tracking and Roto provided by Radium.
Additional Matte Paintings by Syd Dutton, Bill Taylor, A.S.C., Illusion Arts Inc.
