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We’re very excited to announce that I want to call her Stacey will be shown at the San Diego Christian Film Festival. If you are in the area, please check out our film along with a bunch of other great titles.
Check out the Official Selections 2011
Screenings: Theater D Schedule, Theater E Schedule
We would like to thank the festival organisers for their efforts and support.
We’re very excited to announce that I want to call her Stacey received an Excellence Award in the animation category of the LA Movie Awards. We want to say a big thank you to the event organisers and judges!
I want to call her Stacey was produced in Australia, with cast and crew from Brisbane, Queensland.
Production began in 2009 with seven crew and three talented voice actors.
Cast
Kate: AMANDA GRAY
Phil: ROWAN CHAPMAN
Sonographer VANESSA WELLS
Crew
Writers: CLAIRE RENTON, DAN LEE, ALANA ORTH
Director: ALANA ORTH
Producer and 3D Visuals: ZAC BAVAS
Music by: HANS VAN VLIET
Sound Design: JO LEUTTON, JOHN DAGWELL
Special Thanks to
IV MOTION
AUDIO ADVANTAGE
Thanks to God for the help we received making this film. – Zac Bavas
I want to call her Stacey is a story about life, beauty and broken relationships.
The short animation artistically and accurately captures the emotions and developments in utero.
We wanted this film to be a peice of art, yet much time and effort was invested in portraying Stacey’s development.
Months were spent looking through books, watching footage from inside the womb and searching online articles for referenced images and material.
We found great information from a DVD The Biology of Prenatal Development put out by The Endowment for Human Development.
We are amazed by the beauty of the developing child and feel it is important to list a few interesting points.
The following are measured by using fertilization age, not gestational age.
NB: There are two ways of determining the age of the unborn.
Day 0
Fertilization
Week 3-4
Heart starts beating
Week 4
Arm and leg buds present.
Week 5
Subtle movement appears.
Early eye development.
Week 8-9
Fetal period begins.
Sucking thumb.
Week 9
Sighs, bends and stretches.
Opens and closes mouth.
Can move tongue.
Week 9-10
Fingernails and toenails start growing
Fingerprints are present
Week 10
Most organs and tissues are present; they will continue to grow and strengthen.
Week 11
Face can pull expressions
Gender can be identified.
Week 15
Crown-heel length 19.5 cm
Week 21 – 22
Premature babies can survive at this stage.
References
[1] The Endowment for Human Development http://www.ehd.org/
[2] Nillsson, Lennart Hamberger, Lars (A Child Is Born) Doubleday., 2003.
[3] Flanagan, Geraldine Lux (Beginning Life. The Marvelous Journey from Conception to Birth) DK Publishing Inc., 1996.
[4] Kitzinger, Sheila (Being Born) Grosset & Dunlap., 1986.
[5] I am pregnant (heart rates) http://www.i-am-pregnant.com/encyclopedia/F/Fetal-Heart-Rate/
[6] Prenatal development Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_development
[7] Wikipedia (Gestational Age) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestational_age
[8] Baby Centre (Sizes) http://www.babycenter.com/average-fetal-length-weight-chart
[9] California Pacific Medical Centre http://www.cpmc.org/services/pregnancy/information/fetal_development.html
[10] What to Expect http://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/your-baby
I want to call her Stacey was met with a very warm reception at the Cherish Life Conference.
I would like to say a big Thank You to Teresa Martin and event organisers for giving us this great oportunity to launch the film.
A story never before told, I want to call her Stacey follows the perspective of an unborn child developing in the womb.
From the first sparks of her existence, all the joys of her young life are threatened by growing tension between her parents.
Stacey’s journey is helplessly influenced by the choices and actions of others.
Details
Film duration: 9 mins and 5 seconds
Total frames (PAL): 13646
Total shots: 43
Frame size (SD, PAL, 16:9): 1024 x 576 progressive
Software
3ds Max
Adobe After Effects
ZBrush
Adobe Premier
Adobe Audition
Render Times
After Effects (Compositing)
Approx average AE render time was 1:03 hr per shot
Average disk size per completed frame was 4.3MB for a 16bit Tiff
3ds Max
Every shot of Stacey would consist of 2 base passes from Max. Colour pass with zdepth and an AO pass. The following render times are based on these two passes.
We rendered to 16bit rpf files with embedded zdepth and alpha.
We used 7 machines ranging from a single CPU to Dual Xeon work stations. In total there were 7 machines used for rendering, 4 of which were full time.
The after crunching all the numbers I think the easiest way to explain the render times would be to say:
1 CPU = 9880 hours
(quad) 4 CPU = 2470 hours
or
5 x (quad) 4 CPU machines for a total of 494 hours (20.58 days).
Man Hours
Total hours for modeling / rigging / animation / texturing / compositing / editing added up to a total of 843 hours
which is
= 35.1, 24 hour days
= 105.4, 8 hour working days
= 21, 40 hour working weeks
Previous to this production we had made a trailer. Unfortunately no records were kept in regard to render times etc. This trailer helped us develop an overall look and feel for the film.
