When Chromasoma provided Digital Ammo two finished characters for the project, the final voice and audio tracks were still not ready. We were working with provisional versions recorded in the UK, the real voice talent had to be genuine American.

Anyway, to save time and use technology to our advantage Digital Ammo wisely decided to use Kaydaras ‘filmbox’ v3 and its voice reality2 to produce a quick lip-sync for the characters.These were then taken in to xsi via the older version of Softimage 3D. This enabled us to work on the rest of the project and not worry too much about the lipsync which had become a semi-automated process.

When the final voices arrived they were applied to the model heads in filmbox then brought in to XSI . where the fully animated characters had several basic moves stored, using the animation mixer we were able to add moves i.e. swimming actions etc and talking heads.

Once each characters scene was completed Chromasoma took their lighting from the sets an applied it to the characters. Using XSI’s Render passes several layers were produced for the composite.

The project was a very ambitious one for the deadline without Softimage XSI and Kaydrars Filmbox Digital Ammo would have not completed the project on time.
The final render passes and compositing were done at Chromasoma’s studios.

– This is a press release from project “Chromasoma” in Me Company.

Walt Disney World ^®
Address: Oralndo, Florida, USA
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com