Audrey Head

Red Kite is the story of an ambitious young kite who gets more than he wanted on a day of flying at the park.

I worked on this student short film over the past two years mainly on my own as the major project of my undergraduate IT degree. I spent approximately 1500 hours working on everything from modelling and texturing through to animation and dynamic effects programming. The images were rendered using Pixars Renderman software across 4 render nodes for a combined total of ~1500 hours. The longest frame took just over 2 hours to render. Software used was Autodesk Maya, Adobe After Effects, Pixars Renderman, Adobe Audition and Adobe Premiere.

I programmed the grass simulation tool developed specifically for this project in Mayas Embedded Language (MEL). Some procedural audio was programmed using Pure Data. Other supporting programs were written in Java and C++.

Special thanks to Pixar Animation Studios for their kind generosity in supplying me with additional free Renderman licen