Origin

Directed by James Stacey and produced by Souljacker, “Origin” has been in production since September 2010. The film was scripted by Matthew Darragh and James Stacey, with an original score by Rónán Ó Snodaigh of Kíla.

Brief synopsis – A young man is on the brink of emigration, but as he races through the streets of Dublin he comes to realise the spirit he’s leaving behind.

Here’s the trailer ! -

“Origin” is being made under the Irish Film Board’s Short Shorts scheme and will premiere on July 9th at the Galway Film Fleadh 2011

For anybody of a technical mindset, James gave some details on the pipeline/techniques -
“‘Origin has been produced primarily using Maya and Mental Ray while also relying heavily on it’s compositing pipeline. The streets of Dublin have been captured using still photographs. This data was then brought into Maya for 3D shot setup. From this, templates were output and then painted with good old fashioned Photoshop background painting. The templates were then projected back on to the 3D models and environments. The shots were then brought into compositing with a large number of shots composited employing projection Mapping techniques’.”

To check out James’s previous “Making Of” blogs – click HERE

The extremely amazing and hard working crew on Origin to date are -

Director: James Stacey
Producer: Sean Smith

Written by: Matthew Darragh & James Stacey

Animation Director: Matthew Darragh
Art Director: Stephen O’Connor
Lead 3D Artist: Donnchadh Murphy
CG Supervisor: James Stacey
Production Manager: Laura Roche

Backgrounds: Mark Molnar

Texture Artists: Andrew Hamilton & Cian O’Reilly

Animation:
Matthew Darragh
Andy Doyle
Declan Doyle
Shane Collins

Additional Animation
Matt Bugeja

Modelling & layout:
Dimitri Zolotoukhine
Martin Kelly
Eoin Kavanagh
Sean Forsyth
Richard Keane

Lighting & FX:

Craig Kane
Paul Sheehy
Pete McNally

Juliusz Kaczmarek
Ezequiel Mastrasso
Patrick Redmond

Additional FX:
David O’Brien
Tino Nettling

Additional Rigging:
Ronan O’Neill
Darragh Duffy
Eoghan Garvey

Storyboards: Andrew Crotty
Additional 2D Design: Barry O’Donoghue

Post Production

Music: Rónán Ó Snodaigh
Audio Post: SoundButlers
Sound Design: Gavin Little
Foley:Paul Juggins

Online Editor: Danny Brown
Offline Editor: Brian O’Brien