Goderich Signal Star, 2017-03-08, Page 55Jungle Book wins 2017 Oscar;
Hensall woman on the team
Three major
movie awards
for Outstanding
Visual Effects
Lynda Hillman-Rapley
Postmedia Network
From working_ at her
family business in Hensall to
three major movie awards
for the Jungle Book, includ-
ing the 2017 Oscar, Peta Bay-
ley is a busy woman.
Bayley is a Senior Anima-
tor in the demanding feature
film industry, an accom-
plished artist and talented
ice sculptor, yet she still finds
time to raise her four year
old daughter, Magill with
partner, Chef Michael Sanz.
That's a busy schedule,
any way you look at it.
Based in London, UK,
Bayley is an Animation
Supervisor for the Moving
Picture Company (MPC),
one of the leading visual
effects production compan-
ies in the world. She has
been with MPC for 10 years
working on a variety of films
including
10,000 BC (2007), Night at
the Museum: Battle of the
Smithsonian, Harry Potter
and the Half Blood Prince
(2009), Percy Jackson and
the Lightning Thief, Clash of
the Titans, The Voyage of the
Dawn Treader, The Wolf -
man, Prince of Persia: The
Sands of Time, The Chron-
icles of Narnia: Prince Cas-
pian, (2010), Pirates of the
Caribbean: On Stranger
Tides (2011), Dark Shadows
(2012), Guardians of the Gal-
axy (2014), The Shallows
(2016), and the award-win-
ning, The Jungle Book
(2016), with more films cur-
rently in production.
Bayley's resume also
includes a long period work-
ing with her father, Julian,
and sister, Heidi, at Icecul-
ture in Hensall where in
addition to ice carving, she
developed a process for cre-
ating animals out of fruits
and vegetables which were
embedded in ice. She also
toured North America teach-
ing
eaching other ice carvers how to
master her technique.
Peta's journey to the world
of 3-D animation is unusual
to say the least. She has a BA
Honours Anthropology from
Contributed photo
Peta Bayley on the red carpet. Bayley is an Animation Supervisor at MPC, one of the leading visual
effects production companies in the world. She also hails from Hensall.
McGill University in Mont-
real, an MSc Cognitive
Neuropsychology with Dis-
tinction from Essex Univer-
sity in the UK, and a post-
graduate certificate in 3-D
Digital Animation (Maya) at
Seneca College, Toronto. She
has also completed many
other training courses and
workshops along the way.
This year, she and fellow
Animation Supervisors,
Gabriele Zucchelli and
Andrew Jones, won the pres-
tigious 2017 Annie Award for
Outstanding Achievement,
Character Animation in a
Live Action Production for
their work on Disney's, The
Jungle Book.
During the two year pro-
duction, more than 800 art-
ists from MPC - including
105 animators - worked on
the project. The film has
since received many other
awards and nominations
including a BAFTA award
(British Academy of Film
and Television Arts) and the
nomination for the Oscar
awards for Best Achievement
in Visual Effects in which
they won.
Bayley has made presen-
tations in France and the UK
about the animation tech-
nology used in The Jungle
Book and has given a guest
lecture to students at Fansh-
awe College (London,
Ontario) about her career in
the 3-D Animation industry.
The film, which now has
an Academy Award win for
best visual effects, used Los
Angeles sound stages to
shoot the two-hour film,
crafting a new approach to
filmmaking.
"One of the biggest cre-
ative challenges of the film
for us was having talking ani-
mals that looked real - and
finding that correct balance,"
said Baley, animation super-
visor at MPC Film.
"Shooting the whole thing
on blue screen, Favreau and
visual effects (VFX) super-
visor Rob Legato hired more
than 800 computer graphics
artists from The Moving Pic-
ture Company (MPC) to
work for a year in creating 54
different animal species. The
voice acting gave us our first
clues for the performance
and which way to take it,"
Baley said.
"We use things like the
characters physical limita-
tions to inform the
performance."
Before a single frame was
shot, each scene was meticu-
lously prepared, camera
moves designed and models
of terrain and trees arranged.
Next steps for Bayley? She
returns to Canada in the
summer to join the MPC stu-
dio in Montreal. However,
before that, she will welcome
a new addition to her own
family.
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