“Window Pains” by Savannah College of Art and Design
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2009 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2009:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 20
Title:
- Window Pains
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Savannah College of Art and Design
Description:
“Window Pains” is a CG-animated comedy about an old man, his broken computer, and his despair with tech support. When you’re on hold, no one can hear you scream.
The film’s focus is on frustration with technology. It blends universal comedy with creative, stylistic innovation. Visually, the film employs a painterly, hand-crafted aesthetic rarely seen in digital animation to embrace the element of human error in computing technology. The story is dialogue-driven, and the dialogue takes the creative form of meaningful gibberish. No words can be fully understood, but the character’s meanings read clearly through vocal inflection and emotive, performance-driven animation. “Window Pains” seeks to find humor in the mundane.
Hardware:
HP Desktop PCs, Macintosh Power PCs, Wacom Cintiqs, Windows XP, Mac OSX, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Software:
Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, DigiDesign ProTools
Additional Contributors:
Director: Paul Tillery IV
Frank: Ralf Jean-Pierre
First Operator: Kate Carson-Groner
Second Operator: Victor Almeida
Sound Designer: James Hunt
“Hold Tune” Composer: Ryan McCurdy
Rendering Assistants: Victor Almeida, Andrea Stephens
Production: Savannah College of Art and Design
Special Thanks to: Elizabeth Stevenson, Jacques Khouri, Jeremy Moorshead, Jason Maurer, Debra Smith
