Summer of ’07 was my first time back to Stardust since 2003-ish. Amy Kaufman from Stardust inticed me with this project. Seeing how my wife and I are HUGE tennis fanatics ( Honor’s tennis blog ), I was easily convinced in driving all the way to the west side for this one.
I got to spend 2 days on set with Serena Williams as TD alongside with Chris Eckhart for Stardust. First day was a Motion Capture session with Serena.2nd day was mostly green screen. Joseph Khan was the live action director for HP Serena.
On set, Chris Eckhart and I had to take measurements of Serena to get proper proportions for the CG Serena in the video game section. And lemme tell yah, that shelf in the back was truly a shelf.
After the shoot came down to the nitty gritty. With an army of designers creating look frames for each vignette, and on average 5-6 animators, we started creating each vignette.
I worked on the photo album section, mini-tennis player section, video game section, some other smaller 3d sections, and compositing.
I actually designed the tennis stadium for the video game. Unfortunately the way the camera is framed, you can’t see the entire stadium design, but you can see it here.
