Production Overviews
Thursday, 16 August
2:15 - 4 pm
Room 403

Session Chair
Juan Buhler
PDI/DreamWorks


"Budweiser Alien" Commercial
Leandro Estebecorena
Industrial Light + Magic
3155 Kerner Boulevard
San Rafael, California 94901 USA
leandro@ilm.com

ILM's Computer Graphics Commercials Department accepted the challenge of generating a CG stadium crowded with aliens and made it look real without the aid of references from set.


Whippin' up a Storm
Alex Seiden
212 Garfield Place
Brooklyn, New York 11215 USA
aseiden@hotmail.com

Months of planning, preparation, and execution go into every Super Bowl spot, right? Not always! This sketch looks at the making of one spot and the frenzy involved.


The Living Forest: The Story of a 3D Feature Film in Europe
Juan Nouche
DYGRA Films
Linares Rivas 9
La Coruña 15005 SPAIN
cristobal@filloa.com

"The Living Forest" ("el Bosque Animado") is a 3D feature film by Spanish animation studio DYGRA Films using MAYA and in-house applications.


Character Setup and Animation for "3-2-1 Penguins!"
Michael B. Comet
Big Idea Productions
206 Yorktown Center
Lombard, Illinois 60187 USA
michael.comet@bigidea.com

A summary of rigging and animation issues for this 3D, cartoon-style children's video, from user interface scripting to squash and stretch.