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Dreaming ... and dancing: the CG characters in all three SIGGRAPH award-winning films spend time in a digital dream.(CG Shorts)(Grzegorz Jonkajtys)(Interview)(Cover story)

Computer Graphics World

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When Grzegorz Jonkajtys attended the premiere for the Polish film Quo Vadis? at Vatican City in August 2001, little did he know, a side trip deep into the catacombs beneath the Appian Way would be the start of a personal journey. At the time, Jonkajtys was working as an animator for Platige Image in Warsaw, which had created 30 visual effects shots for the film. As he walked mile after mile, alongside thousands of burial shelves carved into the soft walls of the dank tunnels, he imagined being inside a large ship.

"I thought of a huge oil tanker, with networks inside of what looks like graves that are platforms for people," ...

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