About The Film

The Plot
Li tells the story of a future where Earth's remaining population lives content within the ergonomic, medicated, and peaceful confines of Link. Li, the titular protagonist, faithfully serves his duty to the city as a Programmer during the day but come night his sleep is tormented by nightmares of a half-forgotten past. When a mysterious woman is brought into the Programming Bay for mental reconstruction Li is struck by a strange sense of familiarity and begins a tumultuous journey of discovery that will challenge Link itself.

Making the Film
Live action production was spearheaded by Digital Hydra using a stereoscopic beam splitter rig and dual RED One cameras at DePaul University's East Jackson soundstage (as well as various locations around the Chicago area). The film runs approximately 25 minutes long and is intended to be the concept pitch for an eventual feature film.

During production I served as a Visual FX Supervisor and now, during post production, I am responsible for developing the stereoscopic visual effects workflow.


Credits
Screenplay: Ross Heran
Director: Ross Heran
Producers: Patrick Wimp, Hamzah Jamjoom, Jacquelyn Chenger

VFX Supervisors: Hamzah Jamjoom, Tim Little

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Custom Facial Mocap Test

First fruits of a recent facial motion capture session. The marked points on the actor's face are tracked by hand in Maya Live and then used to drive a facial rig. The process of applying tracked motion to the facial rig is handled by a MEL script that I developed for my short film Cultural Ambassador.

Character Model by Xiaoyu Zhang
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/xiaoyu-zhang/3/537/b77

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