It was a great privledge to be a part of this production, and to work with a very talented group of artists. My contributions were assisting with taking concept boards from 2d to 3d. Most of challenges were from a creative stand-point in making the shilouettes look good in 3d space, and stereo! To streamline character creation, the Species plugin for Softimage was used, which included a pre-rigged, customizaable, humanoid basemesh. From there it was just setting the pose, adjusting the 3d camera rig and compositing in Nuke.

During pre-production I was also tasked with creating and modifying some of Sarofsky's existing 3d tools for the project. These tools included streamlining the file/folder creation for project files, better management of rendered assets and playblast for 3d camera rigs.

To see more behind-the-scenes from production, check out this in-depth article from Art of the Titles.

• Production :

  Sarofsky Corp.

• Director :

  Erin Sarofsky

• Executive Producer :

  Rachel Steele

• Director of Photography :

  Steven Piet

• B Camera Operator :

  Brian Schilling

• Steadicam Operator :

  Janice Arthur

• First Assistant Camera :

  Mike Bove

• Line Producer :

  Anna Jung

• Production Coordinator :

  Halley Winer

• Post Producers :

  Erik Crary, Michael Burke

• Visual Effects Director :

  Matthew Crnich

• CG Director :

  Andy Zazzera

• Illustrator :

  Tricia Kleinot

• 3D Artist / Compositors :

  John Filipkowski, Nick Braatz, Kyle Romanek, James Lee, James Reid, Alex Kline