Quick Facts

Film Title

African Adventure: Safari In The Okavango

Length

40 minutes

Website

www.nwave.com

Director

Ben Stassen

Producers

Ben Stassen

Associate Producer

Tim Liversedge

Director of Photography

Sean MacLeod Phillips

Distributor

nWave Pictures Distribution

Available Film Formats

15perf/70mm (3D / 2D)
8perf/70mm
5 perf/70mm
Digital

Film Description

Led by South African zoologist Liesl Eichenberger, viewers join world- renowned wildlife filmmaker Tim Liversedge, for a thrilling adventure in the flooded desert. Through stunning 3D photography, they get “up close and personal” with a great variety of big-game animals, crocodiles, hippos, elephants, and lions, and observe one of the largest bird concentrations on the planet.

Originating Format

Live action:	2 new 3D 35mm systems were used. One was a zoom rig that used two 10:1 zoom lenses. The other was a narrower, lightweight system that could fit into a Scorpio head, a remote head that stabilizes shots taken from a shaking, off-road vehicle.
Animation & compositing:	15perf/70mm film

Animation Software

Maya

Compositing Software

Digital Fusion

Additional Animation Info

Each composited final frame in African Adventure is approximately 49 megabytes for a total of 5.6 terabytes

Every filmed image was reworked on computer. 11.2 terabytes of information were stored during the production.

The film has 59,363 frames per eye. That's 118,726 images for this stereoscopic film.

Each image was processed in 4096 x 3112 / 2048 x 1536 / 1920 x 1080 and 720 x 576, in Cineon and RGB for a total of 593,630 files handled.

Once the final scenes were rendered they were stored on fire wire hard drives and DLT tapes. The DLTs were archived in Brussels and the drives were sent to our film recording facilities in Los Angeles. Once the film was shot to 70mm, an additional & final back-up to DLT was made in Los Angeles.