“Posing as a Werewolf: The Creature Matchmove Tool Used for Van Helsing” by Monks, Newall, Phillips, Popravka, Smith, et al. …

  • ©Chris Monks, Marla Newall, Cary Phillips, Nicolas Popravka, Jason RM Smith, and James Tooley

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    Posing as a Werewolf: The Creature Matchmove Tool Used for Van Helsing

Session/Category Title:   Creatures of “Van Helsing”


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    Van Helsing, the latest film by director Stephen Sommers presented an incredible challenge to the Visual Effects Team at Indus- trial Light & Magic. Universal Studios asked VFX Supervisors Scott Squires and Ben Snow, and Animation Director Daniel Jeannette to bring these familiar characters to life for a new generation.


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    The development of these tools would not have been possible with- out the vision and support of Daniel Jeannette, Scott Squires, Ben Snow and Steve Sullivan. Special Thanks to Gretchen Libby and Production, Jeff White, the ILM Van Helsing R&D Software Team, Creature Development, MatchAnimation and Animation Crews.


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