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Polygon Family
Toshifumi Kawahara,
Jun Asakawa,
Polygon Pictures
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Polygon Family is a family of four, performing an ordinary daily life with an expression of delicate habit and gesture.
Polygon Pictures was one of the first companies to apply realistic television aspects to its work, producing five short CG animation pieces expressly for TV, built upon different themes.
Polygon Family is one of these short CG animation pieces.
The project was named “Digital Adult Sesame”, because we wanted to highlight the fact that the contents could be enjoyed by adults as well as children.
On the technical side, we came up with an original project management system called DWARF (Digital Work in process & Asset Routing Foundation). Up until that point, such mammoth projects, which involved many people working simultaneously on large quantities of data over a long period of time, had been overseen by people, which inevitably entailed considerable human resources costs and inefficiencies.
DWARF computerizes this process, thus realizing a sophisticated production management system in sync with the future of CG production.
Polygon Pictures was one of the first companies to apply realistic television aspects to its work, producing five short CG animation pieces expressly for TV, built upon different themes.
Polygon Family is one of these short CG animation pieces.
The project was named “Digital Adult Sesame”, because we wanted to highlight the fact that the contents could be enjoyed by adults as well as children.
On the technical side, we came up with an original project management system called DWARF (Digital Work in process & Asset Routing Foundation). Up until that point, such mammoth projects, which involved many people working simultaneously on large quantities of data over a long period of time, had been overseen by people, which inevitably entailed considerable human resources costs and inefficiencies.
DWARF computerizes this process, thus realizing a sophisticated production management system in sync with the future of CG production.
Jun Asakawa (JP), born 1952, is a freelance film director for movies, TV-programs and commercials.
Toshifumi Kawahara (JP) born 1950, received an MA from the Art and Design Department of the University of California at video and computer graphics. After graduating and returning to Japan, worked for Takenobu Igarashi Design studio, and then founded the computer graphics studio, Polygon Pictures, Inc. in 1983. At present, President of Polygon Pictures, Inc. Managing Director of Multimedia Research Center (MRC)/National Institute.
Toshifumi Kawahara (JP) born 1950, received an MA from the Art and Design Department of the University of California at video and computer graphics. After graduating and returning to Japan, worked for Takenobu Igarashi Design studio, and then founded the computer graphics studio, Polygon Pictures, Inc. in 1983. At present, President of Polygon Pictures, Inc. Managing Director of Multimedia Research Center (MRC)/National Institute.