Rising Sun hits 50...
 
Rising Sun Pictures has increased its filmography to 52 features, with the recent awarding of another four film contracts. Since its launch in 1995, RSP continues to provide world-class visual effects to feature film audiences through collaborations with studios in the US, the UK and Australia.

From last minute help to deliver a broad range of shots for Prince Caspian, to pre-visualisation, on set supervision and effects design for Wolverine, to a complete sequence design for the climactic chase through futuristic Mumbai in Love Story 2050, our recently completed slate of work has provided artists with many technical and creative opportunities. RSP is looking forward to a busy second half of 2008 delivering Australia, Mao's Last Dancer, Broken Hill, Wolverine and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

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The Spirit

In Frank Miller's The Spirit, Rookie cop Denny Colt returns from the beyond as a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City.

Xmen Origins: Wolverine

Having provided pre-visualisation services for the film in pre-production, RSP are now in development on key effects sequences in the film, which is due for release in 2009.

Australia

Rising Sun are continuing to develop visual effects for Australia, which is due for release late 2008.

Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince

After contributing sequence work to Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire and The Order of the Phoenix, Rising Sun are now delivering a major effects package for Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince.

The Ruins at Siggraph 2008

RSP’s work on The Ruins has been selected for the prestigious SIGGRAPH 2008 conference in Los Angeles. CG Supervisor Carsten Kolve will present the animation pipeline developed to tame the complexity of the film's main character, the Vine-mass, showing how thousands of leaf and flower attachments were made to bounce, sway, collide and perform in a believable and controllable way.

For more information visit the Siggraph site.

Mao's Last Dancer, Broken Hill

RSP are onset providing visual effects services for two upcoming Australian films. Mao’s Last Dancer, Directed by Bruce Beresford, is based on the autobiography of Li Cunxin, a ballet dancer who defected from China for the love of a woman.
Broken Hill is the story of a gifted teenage composer from the outback who dreams of being accepted into the famous Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but strange incidents lead to a band with a difference.

 
Open Source at RSP
 
Rising Sun Pictures are keen advocates of Open Source, so we have released a number of our in-house tools as open-source projects.

Earth - Find files across a large network of machines and track disk usage in real time
Pyshake - Integrates the Python scripting language with Shake
Affogato - A plugin for Avid's Softimage XSI 3D Animation package. It links XSI with high-end renderers.
Grid Engine - A project to add support in Sun’s Grid Engine for dependencies between sub-tasks in an array job

For more information, visit
> http://open.rsp.com.au

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