# animate! › Films › Sucked Up by Karl Cresser › tools & processes

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, 3d cgi, live action and animation, digital compositing, sexuality, puberty, relationships, narrative short, filmmaker, animator

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**Sucked Up** a film by Karl Cresser

2003, 6 min 40 sec

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#### process summary

Computer animation and treatments, live-action DV and blue-screen.

Made using a (Dual Athlon 1.2G) PC and a miniDV camera. Experimented with passing the material through various software processes. Blue screen live action shot on DV and keyed in Discreet Combustion.

3D animation done in Discreet 3ds Max and composited and graded in Combustion. A DVD-ROM of Quicktimes taken to Automatic Television for output to Digibeta using DPS Reality.

Sound design and music made in Cubase.

**Sucked Up** film, stills and other materials © Karl Cresser 2003