''Chasm'' depicts two CG cities on either side of a rift: one represents the brickand mortar business world, while the other e-commerce, with Norfolk Southern trains effortlessly spanning the gap between. The detail and design of the worlds created a compelling hyper-realisticvisual density unusual in commercial CGI, with some shots topping 2.5million polygons. To aid in integrating live talent, the spot waschoreographed prior to shooting and played back on set with overlayedblue-screened actors and extras.

Director: David Dryer
Producer: Carlton Ashley, Executive Producer,Jim ShippeeProducer
Production Company: RHYTHM & HUES STUDIOS

Commissioned by Wall to Wall Television for Channel 4, the Discovery Channel and ITEL, Body Story is a series of programmes that takes the audience on six thrilling journeys inside the human body.MPC created 48 minutes of computer animation for 6 episodes, which was 12 months in the making and in excess of 350 shots. In-house software was written throughout 2000 to effect an efficient method of rendering such vast amounts of geometry.Other Software used: Maya, RenderMan, Shake, Propietary Software, Inferno, Fire.Body Story won ''Special Animation Award'' at LEAF.

Director: Daniel Percival & Leanne Klein
Producer: Dan Gluckman
Production Company: The Moving Picture Company

 

One summer's day, she was visiting her old hometown. The place in which she had spent so much time as a child. The town was quiet. It was almost as if nothing had changed. Overcome by nostalgia, she began to recall fragments of her past. The main character's facial expressions were animated and achieved withthe aid of optical motion capture technology. The background sceneryreflects a street lined with shops and houses in a quiet country town,and was created entirely using computer graphics.

Director: Momoko Daigo,Takashi Yamaguchi
Producer: Momoko Daigo,Takashi Yamaguchi
Production Company: NAMCO LIMITED

 

''Little Miss Spider'' is a computer-animated short based on the best-selling book by artist and storyteller David Kirk. For Little Miss Spider’s debut as an animated character, digital artists at Kleiser-Walczak pushed the limits of 3D tools as they transformed Kirk’s vibrant 2D oil paintings into a stylized 3D world. The result is a never-before-seen look in the field of computer graphics.Maya was used for character and scene modeling; animation and rendering. Composer and After Effects were used for compositing. This project was produced for Callaway & Kirk.

Director: Diana Walczak and Jeff Kleiser
Producer: Molly Windover and Jeremy Ross
Production Company: Kleiser-Walczak

The hero is entrusted with but one unyielding duty: To protect and preserve the lives of children. There are but three things he must battle while endlessly fighting to perform his calling... One, he's only a crossing guard. Two, the traffic is heavy. Three, he's an armadillo.Hardware: HP Visualize WorkstationsSoftware: Alias/Wavefront Maya3.0, DeepPaint, Premiere

Director: Joshua West
Producer: Ringling School of Art and Design
Production Company: Ringling School of Art and Design

A detailed 3D model was created to show the 500-million dollar construction project of a 10-mile section of I-95 at the Virginia / Maryland Border, it includes four multi-level interchanges and a major bridge (Woodrow Wilson Bridge) across the Potomac River. Using AutoCAD Land evelopment and 3D Studio Max 3.1, a multi gigabyte 3D database was created to engineering accuracy. The animation is 19,000 frames long and had to managed so that every time a change was made the project can be re-rendered, composited and posted in a 48 hour turn around, using five-dual 933 PC’s.

Director: Jeff Coleman
Producer: Jeff Coleman
Production Company: URS