Director Chris Milk created a CG-driven jaw-dropper for Gnarls Barkley. The heart was brought to bloody, beating life by Gradient Effects in LA using HDRI maps to match the lighting and motion capture of an actor for the body language. The 15 shots of Cee-Lo’s lip-synch performance was provided by Image Metrics in Santa Monica using their proprietary image analysis technology. According to Milk, “The lips had to move like real human lips. We could not find any other technology that was able to achieve the level of exacting perfection I was asking for.”
Some of the tool used: Maya, RealFlow, mental ray, Flame, Image Metrics’ proprietary facial animation solution
Radical Media
Director: Chris Milk
Producer: Anne Johnson
EPs: Jennifer Heath,
Frank Scherma
DOP: Danny Hiele
Prod designer: Zach Matthews
Colorist: Dave Hussey/Co3
Editor: Livio Sanchez/Filmcore
Gradient Effects
VFX super: Thomas Tannenberger
VFX/CG super: Olcun Tan
Producer: Maya Martinez
Compositor/Flame: Simon Holden
Lead modeler: Tom Curnan
Look development/shader: Raphael Protti
Modeling/textures: Gina Kim
Rigging: Chris Christman
Lighter: Alex Marin
Animators: Randall Rose,Keith Sintay
Blood simulations: Eric Ehemann
Editor: Dylan Highsmith
Coordinator: Ian Barbella
Image Metrics
PM: Peter Busch
Animator: Christian Brierley
Lead animator: Cesar Bravo
Lead rigger: Oleg Alexander
Modeler: Tom Tran
Tracker: Bryan Burger
Assistant producer: Pampata Jutte
University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies: Paul Debevec
Woman: Aasha Davis
Man: Jorma Taconne
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