Surf's up: the making of an animated documentary

  • Authors:
  • Rob Bredow;David Schaub;Daniel Kramer;Matthew Hausman;Danny Dimian;R. Stirling Duguid

  • Affiliations:
  • Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, CA;Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, CA;Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, CA;Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, CA;Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, CA;Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 courses
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The CG animated documentary Surf's Up called for unique production techniques to be leveraged throughout the creation of the film. This half day course presents an in-depth look at several of the key aspects of the production: • Integration of a live action hand-held camera into the virtual world to allow the movie to be "shot" in a documentary style. • Development of the wave system and its integration and use by all departments on the film during the production of the movie. • Animation techniques and choices made to support the documentary nature of the film. • Novel effects animation techniques created to support the large number of breaking waves featured in the film. • Look development and lighting techniques leveraged to render the realistic breaking waves as seen in the film.