Creating Chucky for the horror movie “Child´s Play 2019”

Making-of | Introduction | Intermediate | Expert
animago AWARD & CONFERENCE 2019

BigHug and Lumatic share their story, of how they helped to breathe life into a cute little doll and death into the rest of the cast.

Creating a digital character that is an evolving sentient robotic doll poses some unique challenges, especially when the story of the movie itself is still evolving in the cutting room.

Speaker information:

Benedikt Laubenthal

CEO and VFX Supervisor
BigHugFX GmbH, Germany

Benedikt Laubenthal is working in visual effects for 15 years now.
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Florian Wittmann

CG/3D supervisor
BigHugFX GmbH, Germany

After studying visual effects at Filmakademie BW, Florian has started his career as freelance 3D artist, followed by an employment at Woodblock GmbH as Lighting and Pipeline TD.
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Dennis Rettkowski

Co-Founder, VFX and CG supervisor
LUMATIC Animation & VFX , Germany

Dennis has been working as a VFX and CG supervisor for almost two decades and is one of the co-founders of LUMATIC Animation & VFX.
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Lars Krüger

Co-Founder, 3D animator and generalist
LUMATIC Animation & VFX, Germany

Lars co-founded LUMATIC in 2014 after working for several years as a freelance 3D animator and generalist.
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