Lakhvinder | The Elf King. 2000-2001

The Elf King. 2000-2001

3D CGI television pilot episode in the 30 minute format. Lakhvinder performed supercomputing, informatics, operations, logistics, audio engineering, video engineering, technical & advisory consulting, creative writing, trailer design, software consulting & testing, software engineering / programming, mathematical algorithmic R&D and crisis management.

The Elf King

The Elf King is a 3D CGI animated episodic television project in the 30 minute format. Inspired by centuries of tales such as those of the Brothers Grimm, the proof of concept pilot was produced within a budget of only (USD) $700K.

An interesting note is that at the tail-end of the project, Lakhvinder re-rendered the entire pilot episode at a higher level of quality and a commensurate increase in compute- and work-load.

Lakhvinder's credited work

Video Engineering
Supercomputing & Image Rendering
Technical Consulting
Software Consulting & Testing
Programming
Trailer Design & Creative Writing

Lakhvinder's uncredited work

Crisis Management

Informatics: Network Data Logistics
Infrastructure: Project Operations Logistics
Audio Engineering
Mathematical Algorithmic Research & Development

A Selected Sampling of Lakhvinder's Tools for this project

Silicon Graphics ® MIPS ® IRIX ® Big Iron

An array of intel ® Windows ® nodes
intel ® Windows ® servers
Alias|Wavefront ® Maya
Internet
Shake
Wolfram Research ® Mathematica ® (Lakhvinder's "Swiss Army Knife")

Lakhvinder proprietary scene data cleansers and data massagers to parse, repair and rewrite unusable Maya ® scenes and data (written in Mathematica ®)
Lakhvinder proprietary renderer emulating Maya ® image synthesis look and feel to render scenes which were not renderable with Maya ® (written in Mathematica ®, reads scenes and all initial data then outputs C or Fortran code ready to be compiled and executed for synthesis of images)
Lakhvinder developed workarounds to software bugs in Maya ® which could neither be solved nor remedied by client and Alias ® (written in Mathematica ®)
Lakhvinder developed Shake modules for the solution of various hardware, software and process problems, deficiencies and limitations
Lakhvinder developed algorithms for image processing, motion image processing and audio processing (developed and prototyped in with Mathematica ®, deployed in Shake and C)