Figure 16.1: WWW16 Logo
Music:
Country pedal steel guitar and fiddle
Animation
The initial storyboard was pretty well kept to throughout although the form of the skier did change.
Figure 16.2: Initial Storyboard
For Banff we thought we would try and generate a fully articulated figure for the skier.
Figure 16.3: Structured Skier
The structure had the shoulders connected to the torso, the upper arms connected to the shoulders, the lower arms connected to the upper arms and the hands connected to the lower arms. Transformations could be applied to each. The legs were organised in a similar way. The structure is shown below. It is very similar to that used by the ISO PHIGS Standard.
Figure 16.4: Structure
Once we had the structure, it was quite easy to generate the first 3 skiers of varying degrees of technical competence.
Figure 16.5: Skier
The final skier needed to morph into the skier in the logo. In consequence, the last skier is a 2D person who warps into the final form.
Figure 16.6: Final Skier Morphing into Logo Form
Here is the path of the final skier with the 2007 moving out of the path of the advancing skier. The morphing above appears between position 6 and 7.
Figure 16.7: Final Skier Descends
We tried various ways of collecting up the trees but doing them one at a time tended to take up too much time.
Figure 16.8: Collecting Up the Trees
Here is a photo of the Opening Session in Banff.
Figure 16.9: Banff Opening Session