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Part 1: The Largest Film Ever Created
in CGI
Part 2:
Threshold Digital
Part 3: "I've got a challenge for
you guys"
Part 4: Storyboarding Science and
Religion
Part 5: The Problem of Playback
Part 6: FrameCycler to the Rescue |
Threshold Digital's stellar reputation for high quality venue content
made them a natural choice for the Crystal Cathedral as planning got
under way for the ambitious Creation production. In the manner of
previous hit shows at the Crystal Cathedral (The Glory of Easter and The
Glory of Christmas), this was to be "an original piece of theatre magic"
combining a powerful music score, stage actors, dancers,
larger-than-life puppetry, aerial acrobatics" … and a huge projection
screen. It was in the summer of 2004 that writer/director Carol Schuller
Milner announced to the team at Threshold Digital "I've got a challenge
for you guys!"
The challenge, it turned out, involved creating over 100 shots for a
production which would ultimately be wider than three IMAX screens
side-by-side. It amounted to creating more than a full feature film - in
half the normal time. Needless to say, Threshold Digital's intrepid
artists set to work at once.
"This job presented a two-part problem," explains Derek Zavada. "First
we were going to have to find a way to synchronize multiple screens.
Secondly we had to make sure that the content looked good when it was
projected to such a massive size."
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Derek Zavada is Director of Technology
at Threshold Digital. He spoke with us for this story.
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