WEBINAR: FLY 'OVER THE MOON'
with SPI’s David Smith, Sacha Kipijimpanga & Clara Chan
January 19, 2021
Fueled with determination and a passion for science, a bright young girl builds a rocket ship to the moon to prove the existence of a legendary Moon Goddess. There she ends up on an unexpected quest, and discovers a whimsical land of fantastical creatures. Imageworks artists will take you behind-the-scenes of this exhilarating animated musical adventure, exploring the technical and artistic challenges the team faced in order to bring legendary director, Glen Keane's, vision to life.
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WEBINAR
FLY 'OVER THE MOON' WITH SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS
Moderator: Marina Antunes with David Smith, Sacha Kipijimpanga & Clara Chan
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BIOGRAPHIES
Director, VFX Supervisor // Sony Pictures Imageworks
(Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, Over the Moon, Hotel Transylvania)
Clara Chan is a visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks with over two decades of industry experience. In 2001, Chan joined Imageworks as a technical director in the lighting department. Her credits include the animated feature Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the Academy Award®-nominated Over the Moon, first three Hotel Transylvania films, Storks, The Emoji Movie, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, The Amazing Spider-Man, Cats & Dogs 2, G-Force, Beowulf, the Academy Award-nominated Monster House, The Polar Express, and Stuart Little 2.
Earlier in her career, Clara worked as a software engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. Clara earned a B.S. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s degree in visualization sciences from Texas A&M University.
Clara is also directing and producing an animated short film in her spare time, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
David Smith is a visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, most recently supervising the Netflix animated feature Over the Moon, directed by the legendary Glen Keane.
Previously, Smith served as VFX Supervisor on The Emoji Movie and Storks and as digital effects supervisor on The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, directed by Marc Webb.
Smith has worked on multiple Academy Award®-nominated features including: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (2006 Academy Award® nominee, Achievement in Visual Effects), Hollow Man (2000 Academy Award® nominee, Achievement in Visual Effects), Stuart Little (1999 Academy Award® nominee, Achievement in Visual Effects), Starship Troopers (1998 Academy Award® nominee, Achievement in Visual Effects).
During his time at Imageworks, Smith has worked on many other films including: Eagle Eye, I Am Legend, Green Lantern, Cats & Dogs 2, Beowulf, Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone and Godzilla.
Smith earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Television & Film from San Diego State University. He began his entertainment career as a runner at Boss Film Studios in 1991. While working in the Boss purchasing department, Smith offered to also work nights and mornings in the rapidly expanding CGI department. Smith quickly moved up to senior technical director working on such features as Species and Outbreak and animating on the theme park ride "Scuba Dog." He was promoted to scene supervisor for Multiplicity, creating on-set pre-visualization and leading a team of compositors to complete the effects work.
David has been a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Art & Sciences since 2013.
Marina has been writing and discussing film for over 15 years, first on a personal blog, followed by a decade-long tenure on the now retired Row Three. In 2008, she joined the writing staff at Quiet Earth, becoming Editor-In-Chief in 2014, a role she still holds. Over the years, she has also produced and hosted a number of podcasts including Before the Dawn, a long-running podcast on the Twilight franchise, Girls on Pop, a podcast on film and popular entertainment from women’s perspective and After the Credits, bi-monthly film podcast with nearly 300 episodes.
Marina is a member of ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH, the Online Film Critics Society, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and the Visual Effects Society. She is the President of Spark CG Society and the Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH chapter. She has also served on juries for several film festivals including DOXA, St. Louis International Film Festival, and the Whistler Film Festival. She joined the Spark CG Society in 2014.
Sebastian Kapijimpanga is head of character animation at Sony Pictures Imageworks, most recently completing work on the Netflix animated feature Over the Moon, directed by the legendary Glen Keane.
Kapijimpanga previously supervised animation on the live-action Ghostbusters reboot, The Emoji Movie, The Smurfs 2, and The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol. He also served as lead animator Hotel Transylvania, The Smurfs, and G-Force.
Kapijimpanga's other Imageworks credits include: Alice in Wonderland, which was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects, I Am Legend, Beowulf, Surf's Up, Monster House, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe.
Prior to joining Imageworks, Kapijimpanga worked as a Character Animator on Everyone's Hero while at IDT. He was also one of four principal animators on the film Ryan, which won an Academy Award® for Best Animated Short in 2004.
In 2001, Kapijimpanga graduated from "Max the Mutt" Animation School in Toronto, Canada with a diploma in classical animation. He furthered his education by studying 3D digital animation at Seneca College, where he earned a certificate in 2002.
Kapijimpanga is a native of Canada.
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