GIANTSTEP directors Jake Ferguson and Heebok Lee on their opening titles for the OFFF Barcelona 2018 conference: “This sequence is about McLuhan’s famous quote ‘The medium is the message’ infused with the Greek myth of Gemini.

“We adopted the story of Gemini and paralleled their story with the history of media; their secret birth, sisterhood, and death/resurrection along with letterpress printing, broadcast transmutation, and computer/AI world.

“Carefully composed shots allow the viewer to experience our poetic imagination of the story. We made sure the visual rhythm was achieved in the manner of visual poetry by repetition of imagery.”
 

Production: GIANTSTEP
Directors: Jake Ferguson, Heebok Lee
Producer: Barrett Brown
Editor: Zach Kilroy
CG Supervisor: Dogyeom Lee, Gryun Kim
Lead Animation / Design: Sanghee Lee
Lead 3D Artist: Taehoon Park
3D Artist: Sungjin Jang, Jisung Moon, Junho Kim, Haram Jung, Jeongrae Jo, Jaeyeoun Lee
CG Supervisor: Daisuke Sakamoto
Lead 3D Artist: Taemin Jeong
3D Artist: Jukwang Kim, Suhyun Cho, Daeseung Kang, Jeonghyun Shi, Hyungju Yu, Jaemoo Lee
Lead FX Artist: Kichun Kim
FX Artist: Soooh Jeong, Intae Jang
Lead Composite Artist: Dongkyun Seon
Composite Artist: Janghyuk Kim, Jiwoong Park, Jangwoo Choi, Hyunmin Ju
Houdini Technical Director: Serjan Burlak
Art Director: Sasha Vinogradova, Carlo Sa, Chadwick Halbritter, Felix Soletic, Kaya Thomas, Seth Garnes, Eric Keller

Los Angeles Post Production
Editor / Post Supervisor: Zach Kilroy
Lead 3D Animation: Woosong Kang
Lead 2D Animation: Seth Garnes
Animation / Design: Jan Sladecko
Pipeline Management: Jean Delaunay
Animation / Design: Gabriel Perez, Tyler Heacox

For Conscious Minds
Executive Producer: Jonathan Green
Producer: Mat Lancaster, Barrett Brown
Director of Photography: Ryan Speers
First Assistant Director: Dustin McLean
First Assistant Camera: Kelsey Juddo
Gaffer: Chris Webha
VFX Supervisor: Meng-Yang Lu
Second Assistant Camera: Erick Crespo
Propmaker: Clay Sparks
Hair and Makeup: Christina Spina
Electrician: Armando Milano, Rafael Rivera
Key Grip: Kyle Klebe
Best Boy Grip: Job Jaime
Grip: Dave Luke Conte
Dolly Grip: Caleb Zook
Truck / Set PA: Daniel Vejdani
DIT: Shiblon Wixom

Music/Sound Design: Box of Toys Audio

Talent: Christiane Shillito (aka Ulorin Vex)

Special Thanks: OTOY, Quixote, The Greenery Studios, Hai Le, Youngwoo Moon, Jeongseok Yang