Speed Racer: Car Flip

c o n t a c t Carlye Archibeque Sony Pictures Imageworks USA

Sony Pictures Imageworks was one of a few, select studios contributing to the ground-breaking VFX of “Speed Racer.” Led by Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Mack, Imageworks completed three exhilarating racing sequences: Desert Flats, Mountain Rally, and Mountain Switchback. In Desert Flats, Imageworks’ Marco Marenghi and his animation team added a sense of weight and realistic speed to all the elaborate cars and their exotic drivers. Patrick Witting’s complex fluid-dust simulations and Theo Vandernoot’s rigid-body simulations of debris and dirt further enhanced the realistic motion of the sequence. Imageworks’ skilled lighters and compositors combined all the layers of these particular shots, ensuring the consistency of the pop-art/saturated look that Warner Bros. Visual Effects Supervisors John Gaeta and Dan Glass had envisioned from the beginning.

Visual Effects Supervisor CG Environment Leads Modelers Production Assistant Kevin Mack Nick Hiatt Ki Jong Hong Zachary Ruderman The-Hung Quach Minh Doung Visual Effects Producer Supervising Manager, Digital Lisa Goldberg CG Environment Artists Visual Effects Editor Production Adil Mustafabekov Annie Mahlik Wendy Mashburn Digital Effects Supervisor Apryl Knobbe Peter Nofz David Bleich Lead Roto/Paint Artist Production Accountant Dylan Gottlieb Karthik Thangavellu Marissa Tomas Animation Supervisor John Bevelheimer Marco Marenghi IAC Artists Lead Rigger Matte Painters Doug Forrest Brian H. Burks Production Executive Michael Lloyd Richard Shick Jenny Fulle Ronald Gress Shader Writer Matchmove Lead Adam Martinez CG Supervisors Texture Painters John Giffoni Daniel Eaton Allen Gonzales Animation Support Patrick Cohen Suan Tan Digital Effects Production Alex Lampila Theo Bialek Supervisor Chris Gallagher Lead Animators Jeremie Winslow Eric Warren Animation Support Lead Atsushi Sato Justin Miller John Schmidt Jeffrey Schu Supervising Coordinator Paul Davis Evangeline Monroy Effects Artists Look Development Lead Brian Davis Terrence Tornberg IAC Lead Visual Effects Coordinators Cody Harrington Christian Boudman Thomas Core Douglas Bloom FX Leads Jesus De Santiago Greg Reynolds Bill La Barge CG Smoke/FX Artists Jules Eschliman John Courte Daniel La Chapelle Dimitre Berberov Amy Gordon John Lee Patrick Witting Henrik Falt John Patton Theo Vandernoot Joseph Cavnaugh Lead Production Services Seunghyuk Kim Technician Val Kharitonashvili Lead Lighter/Compositors Modeling Lead Craig Feifarek Victor Lew Kuan Lin Kui Han Lee Youngsam Suh Robert W. Crain IAC Coordinator Rosendo Salazar Jason Anderson

80 Special Programme | Computer Animation Festival DIGITAL EXPERIENCES Animators Lighter/Compositors Matchmove Artists Spencer Cook Amy Christensen Barani Kumar Alice Kaiserian Betrand Cordier David Worman Andreas Procopiou Blaine Kennison Durai Babu David Hardin Brian Adams Ellery Ortiz David Wiezer Chad Belteau Eric Peterson Denis Samoilov Chris Nabholz Messrob Torikian Henry Sato Jr. Craig Welsh Ranijith Kizakkey Josh Berveridge Dan Lavender Ron Thomas Kelly Goldstein Frederick Gaudreau Shaik Ikram Ali Kevin Freeman Harry Gundersen Sudhakar Matt Munn James Park Thomas Schultz Mike Kimmel Jeff Chung Nicole Herr Jim McLean Roto/Paint Artists Pericles Michielin Jonathan S. Swartz D. Prasana Susan Kornfeld Joosten Kuypers G. Selvaraj William Haller Joseph Rosensteel Jaikishan Vyas Kenji Sweeney K. Balaji Production Services Technicians Laide Agunbiade P. Balaji Daniel Greenstein Kenny Lam R. Rajappa Vinicio Alvarez Lynn Basas S. Kumarm Yukiko Yamanaka Mark Wendell S. Manijandan Matthew Rampias T. Sangeetha Associate Technical Directors Mike Jiang Juwana Samman Orde Stevanoski Nasheet Zaman Patrick Finley Scott Willman Ryan Rogers Steven Hansen Ryan Tulloch Shane Glading Shannon McGee Teru Yoshida Tomoko Shin Winston Quitasol

DIGITAL EXPERIENCES Computer Animation Festival | Special Programme 81