Information
Aaron Koblin >
»House of Cards«, 2008 - 2009
Co-Workers & Funding:
Radiohead: House of CardsProduction Company: Zoo Films, Los Angeles
Director: James Frost
Producer: Dawn Fanning
Technical Director: Aaron Koblin
Executive Producers: Justin Glorieux, Gower Frost
Director of Photography: Yon Thomas
http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/rh/index.html
Technology
Software
3D Real-time capture engineered by Geometric Informatics Inc. (performance and party)http://www.geometricinformatics.com/
Software and Hardware Development: Dale Royer, Luke Farrer, Song Zhang
3D Laser Imaging Equipment: Velodyne Lidar Inc.
http://www.velodyne.com/lidar/
Field Application Engineer: Rick Yoder
Business Development Manager: Mike Dunbar
Processing of Lidar Data: 510 Systems
http://www.510systems.com
Chief Engineer: Pierre-Yves Droz
System Administrator: Troy Thompson
CEO: Suzanna Musick
Additional Lidar footage supplied by: Aerotec
Aerotec/Chief Executive Officer: James W. Dow
Aerotec/Land Modeling Specialist/LIDAR: William Wallace
Aerotec/Land Modeling Supervisor: Casey Scott
Editorial Company: Union Editorial
Editor: Nicholas Wayman Harris
Assistant Editor: Nathan Cal
Visual Effects By The Syndicate
Visual Effects Supervisor: Ben Grossmann
Visual Effects Producer: Magdalena Wolf
Managing Director: Kenny Solomon
CG Supervisor: Adam Watkins
CG Technical Director: Rodrigo Teixeira
FX Animators: Sam Khorshid, Attila Zalanyi
CG Artist: Duane Stinnett
Compositing Supervisor: Alex Henning
Flame Artists: Verdi Sevenhuysen, Mike Ek, Kevin McDonald
Editorial Consultant: Adam Gerstel
Chief Engineer: Albert Soto
System Administrator: Lap Luu
IT Assistant: Thuy Le
Talent
Lead Girl: Lauren Maher
Studio and equipment provided by: G-Star Studios , West Palm Beach, FL
Descriptions & Essays
Director of Technology - House of Card's Music video, interactive data viewer, and source code.
With Director James Frost and a bunch of other great people, lasers and sensors were used to create a 3D data "music video" for the band Radiohead.
The project was launched as an Open Source project on Google Code.
An interactive online viewer (created along with Aaron Meyers) allows for 3D investigation of the data online.
Nominations 2009 - Grammy (Best Short Form Music Video) - UK VMA (Best Rock Video), British Design Museum Awards
Literature
Beddard, Honor and Douglas Dodds. V and A Pattern: Digital Pioneers. London: V and A Publishing, 2009.
Onedotzero. Motion Blur 2: Multidimensional Moving Imagemakers. London, UK: Laurence King Publishing, 2009.
Catherine Mason. A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts
1950-1980. Norfolk, UK: JJG Publishing, 2008.
Onedotzero. Motion Blur: Graphic Moving Imagemakers Publishers. London, UK: Laurence King Publishers, 2006.
Exhibitions & Events