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

Monday, August 23, 2010

Improved Facial Mocap Rig with 1:1 Head Movement

A second test of Link's facial mocap performance. The rig has been tweaked, weights adjusted, and the MEL scripts improved. The rotation of the head is recreated by tracking the XYZ position of 2 markers on top of the actress' head from a front and side camera. I then create a central locator that attempts to point towards both markers at the same time. This provides a fairly accurate rotation value for the head, which could be improved by adding a third camera on the other side of the actress.

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

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