| Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists | |
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Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists film poster |
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| Directed by | Alan Jacobs Evan Ricks |
| Produced by | G.V. Babu Sriram Rajan |
| Written by | Jeff Wolverton |
| Starring | Brendan Fraser Jennifer Hale Leonard Nimoy Clint Carmichael Mark Hamill John Rhys-Davies |
| Music by | Chris Desmond |
| Editing by | Scott Conrad |
| Distributed by | Improvision Phaedra Cinema Trimark Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 24 March 2000 |
| Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States India |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million |
Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists (2000) is the first feature length CGI film created exclusively using motion capture. While many animators worked on the project, the human characters were entirely animated using motion capture. At a reported US$30 million, Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists is reported to be the most expensive direct-to-video movie ever shot. It was filmed at Raliegh Studios in Los Angeles, over a three-month period in 1997.
Along with Pandavas: The Five Warriors (also from 2000), this was one of the first computer-graphics-based features made in India. The Pentamedia company was behind both of these productions.
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Sinbad (voiced by Brendan Fraser) "discovers a mysterious island ruled by King Akron (voiced by John Rhys-Davies) and his daughter, Princess Serena (voiced by Jennifer Hale)".[1] Threatened by the powerful wizard Baraka (voiced by Leonard Nimoy), Serena asks for his help in creating a spell that "will conquer Baraka once and for all".[1]
Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists was billed as "the first full-length animated feature using the 3-D animated motion capture process".[1] The film used different actors for the motion caption of the main characters based on their particular size and body shape, as well as another set of actors for the facial movements.[2] A couple of hundred animators in Madras, India, worked on the animation, as well as a smaller group in Los Angeles.[3]
Produced by Pentamedia Graphics and Improvision with assistance of Pentafour Software and Madras. It was purchased by Trimark Pictures for television distribution and had a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. The motion capture technology was provided by the House of Moves Motion Capture Studios in Los Angeles.
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