"ASHE '68" VR Experience
Ashe '68 is a direct technique sand animation VR documentary. The viewer is right there, immersed in Arthur Ashe’s historic, transformative day. You are with Arthur Ashe as he becomes a tennis champion and a champion for social justice on the world stage. The animation was commissioned by Custom Reality Services. It is the first time that a direct technique sand animation was used in Virtual Reality filmmaking. The film was premiered at the U.S. Open in 2018, then shown at Sundance 2019 New Frontiers. More: The Ashe '68 Documentary Project
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Production Team & Partners
Directors: Brad Lichtenstein, Jeff Fitzsimmons, Rex Miller
Producers: Beth Hubbard, Madeline Power
Animation Artists: Ruah Edelstein, Masha Vasilkovsky
Composer: Vernon Reid; Sound Designer: Josh Evert
Musicians: V Jeffrey Smith, Hieronymus Abayudaya
Sound Consultant: Drew Cady; VR supervisors: Matthew Kemper, Mike Hopkinson; Associate VR Producer: Natalie Tejada; VR Artists: Jeffrey Au, Jake Jones, Quan Jiang; Editor: Aaron Elias; VP Production: Crys Forsyth-Smith; Chief Creative Officer: Richard Baker; Director of Photography: Eve M. Cohen; Camera Operator: Andrew Gish; DIT: Ben Schwartz; Offline Editor: Daniela Cortes; Contributing Director: Janicza Bravo; Archival Producer: Hannah Shepard; Choreographer: Gabri Christa;
Unit Production Manager: Madeline Power; Assistant Director: Kesho DeSouza; 2nd Assistant Director: Courtney Battles;
Production Assistants: Tessa Barlow-Ochshorn, Emily Kuester, Candece Munroe, Mahyn Qureshi
Animation Stills from the film
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