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Alice in Wonderland: Creating Underland
May 25, 2010
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SPEAKER SESSION
Tuesday - May 25, 7:00 PM
Alice in Wonderland: Creating Underland
with David Schaub & Carey Villegas
Empire Granville 7
855 Granville Street (near Robson)
Tickets will be available at the door (cash only please). Doors open at 6 pm. It's a larger theatre, so plenty of room for everyone!
PRESENTATION #1: Animating Underland
In this session, Sony Pictures Imageworks' David Schaub, the lead animation director for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland will give you an inside look behind the talent and tools that were used to create this breathtaking film. Mr. Schaub will focus primarily on the creative elements of the show, but he will also provide insight into the surprising challenges and innovative technical solutions that were used to bring the world of Underland to life. This included over 30 characters including the Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Tweedles, the Jabberwocky and every other non-human inhabitant. This session is intended for animation professionals, students, and anyone interested in animation, visual effects and the post-production process.
PRESENTATION #2: Creating VFX for Underland
In this session, Visual Effects Supervisor Carey Villegas will reveal the details of the visual effects work on Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland.
His talk will focus on the process of photographing the "live-action" component of the film, as well as the many challenges that he and Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Ken Ralston faced in post production while creating the visual and stereo 3D effects. He will also discuss the cameras used (4K digital and Panavision Genesis) and the on-set "real-time" camera tracking processes. Ever wonder how the Red Queen's head got so big? Villegas and his team were tasked with manipulating the body shape of the Red Queen to give her maximum effect on screen. Additionally, Villegas will discuss the scaling techniques, both in live action photography and post production effects, involved in photographing Alice's ever changing-size and seamlessly placing her in Underland.
For the character of the Mad Hatter, Villegas' team created subtle facial effects for actor Johnny Depp to allow the actor to expand on his character's performance. The process of integrating the Red and White queens' servants into the live action shots and the process of creating Stayne, the Knave of Hearts, by integrating actor Crispin Glover's real head into the fully CG animated body will also be explained. Key shots and visual effects breakdowns will be shown.
SCHEDULE
6:00 PM Doors Open
6:50 PM Introductions
7:00 PM Presentation #1 w. David Schaub (animation director)
8:30 PM Presentation #2 w. Carey Villegas (vfx supervisor)
10:00 PM Screening of "Alice in Wonderland" (2D)
FILM
Tuesday - May 25, 10:00 PM
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
USA // Dir.: Tim Burton // 109 min. // 35 mm // PG
Empire Granville 7
855 Granville Street (near Robson)
From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic fantasy adventure, a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. Johnny Depp stars as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen's reign of terror. The all-star cast also includes Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen and Crispin Glover.
SPEAKERS BIOS
Carey Villegas
Visual Effects Supervisor
Known and respected for his dedication, commitment, and never-quit attitude, Carey Villegas has been a supervisor for many very demanding "effects-heavy" directors like Michael Bay, Robert Zemeckis, Jim Cameron, and most recently Tim Burton. As a Visual Effects Supervisor on Burton's Alice In Wonderland, Carey oversaw all aspects of the visual effects production on over 1700 shots, from pre-production and photography, to final compositing and stereo 3D dimensionalization.
Carey started his professional career working at Editel in Chicago, the mid-west's largest post-production facility at the time. He quickly rose through the ranks as a Quantel Paintbox / Harry artist, working on national commercials for many of the world's largest advertising agencies. When Discreet Logic introduced their software in the early nineties, Carey made the transition, becoming one of the country's first Flame artists. In 1995, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue work on feature films at Digital Domain.
While at Digital Domain, Carey helped to make it one of the top visual effects facilities in the industry and was a Compositing Supervisor and lead artist in the company's first two visual effects Academy Award wins for Titanic and What Dreams May Come. His other credits while at Digital Domain include such films as Fight Club, Rules of Engagement, Supernova, Armageddon, The Fifth Element, Dante's Peak, Chain Reaction, Michael Collins, Sgt. Bilko, and the Universal Studios theme park stereo 3D attraction, Terminator 2 3-D: Battle Across Time. Carey also supervised many commercial projects and music videos including those for Michael Jackson, Céline Dion, and the Rolling Stones.
In 1999, Carey joined Sony Pictures Imageworks as a Visual Effects Supervisor to work with director Robert Zemeckis on the feature films Cast Away and What Lies Beneath. Cast Away was later recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the top seven Best Visual Effects Films of 2000. Prior to Alice In Wonderland, Carey was brought in to visual effects supervise and help deliver over 550 shots for Hancock, in just under nine weeks. He was also the Visual Effects Supervisor for Bad Boys II, which was nominated for a Visual Effects Society (VES) Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture. Carey supervised nearly 700 visual effects shots for I Spy and was the Visual Effects Supervisor on Bewitched, The Forgotten, The Jane Austen Book Club, Little Black Book, Hollywood Homicide, and America's Sweethearts. In addition, Carey was often called upon to supervise "on-set" visual effects photography for a number of features including Eagle Eye, Spiderman 3, I Am Legend, Aviator, and most recently for actor/director Tim Allen's Crazy on the Outside.
Carey is a well-respected figure in the motion picture visual effects industry for his leadership, creativity, his exemplary grasp of colour and design, and his technical expertise. Having supervised thousands of visual effects shots as a Visual Effects Supervisor and thousands more as a Compositing Supervisor and Digital Artist, Carey is extremely proficient in every aspect of visual effects production. His experience spans nearly two decades of shot and sequence design, pre-visualization, motion-control, motion-capture, miniatures, greenscreen photography, compositing and CG. Known for his ability to juggle multiple projects and personalities, Carey has supervised teams from a few artists to over two hundred. His relationships have crossed international borders, while working with a wide range of vendors, both large and small, including those in Canada, England, India, and Thailand.
Carey has also designed and developed many film, imaging, and compositing pipelines, as well as proprietary tools including Bonsai, Imageworks' in-house compositing software. Bonsai was used to composite over fifty film projects since it's inception on Cast Away, including Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Superman Returns, the two Matrix sequels, and the franchise of Spiderman films to name just a few. He was also instrumental in the development of what is now the Foundry's Nuke compositing software for which he designed and implemented many of its tools while at Digital Domain.
Carey is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Visual Effects Society, and the International Animated Film Society. He has lectured on visual effects and filmmaking at the Hollywood Film Festival, the National Association of Broadcasters, SIGGRAPH, the Visual Effects Society, UCLA, eDIT (The European Festival for Production and Visual Effects), Mecon / Cologne, among many others.
Since the completion of Alice In Wonderland in 2010, Carey continues his career as a freelance Visual Effects Supervisor and consultant.
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David Schaub
Animation Director
David Schaub, an animation director for Sony Pictures Imageworks has worked in the animation and visual effects industry for more than 15 years.
David was the over-all animation supervisor on Disney's Alice In Wonderland, working with director Tim Burton and senior visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston. David was responsible for the performances of all the animated characters and animals that inhabit the world of Underland (more than 30 characters in the film).
In 2008, David completed production as the animation supervisor on I Am Legend which was one of the seven films chosen for the 2008 Oscar® Visual Effects Bake-off. He also received a VES nomination for that work.
In 2007, David was the animation director on the Academy Award®- nominated Surf's Up, Sony Pictures Animation's second all-CG feature-length animated film. The film was recognized with two Annie Awards among its ten nominations and five Visual Effects Society (VES) award nominations.
Since joining Imageworks in 1995, Schaub has worked on a number of notable projects including the Academy Award®-nominated The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe. Schaub served as the animation director for that project at Imageworks, overseeing the creation of the characters Mr. & Mrs. Beaver, Mr. Fox, the lead wolves, Maugrim and Vardin, and their wolf pack.
Schaub has received multiple nominations for individual achievement in character animation by the Visual Effects Society. His first nomination was for Stuart Little 2 as a supervising animator for which he won that year's award for Best Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture. His second nomination was for creating the animated performance of the character "Steamer" in The Polar Express, one of the few characters in the film created entirely through key-frame animation.
His other film credits at Imageworks include the Academy Award®-nominated Stuart Little, Hollow Man (2001 Academy Award® nomination, Best Visual Effects), Evolution, Cast Away, Godzilla, and Patch Adams.
Schaub has earned producer and director credits on several independent video projects, receiving two Accolade Awards as well as nominations by the American Film Institute and the Annual DVD Awards. He has presented his work through numerous publications and conferences around the world.
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