Togo

The story of the sled dog, Togo

Credits

Director

Ericson Core

Producers

Kim Zubick

Production Company

Walt Disney Pictures

Distributor

Disney +

DNEG VFX Supervisor

Raymond Chen

DNEG VFX Producer

Vera Zivny

Release date

December 20th, 2019

‘Togo' is an emotional tribute to real-life heroes, as well as a moving story about the affecting bond between a man and his loyal dog.Screenrant

VFX work

Disney’s ‘Togo’ is the story of Leonhard Seppala and his lead dog Togo, who completed the longest section of the Great Race of Mercy, the famed sled dog relay that brought diphtheria antitoxin across the U.S. territory of Alaska in five and a half days to save the town of Nome from an impending epidemic.

DNEG was the primary VFX house and was tasked with creating much of the visual grandeur and peril of their journey, from the rugged and dangerous Alaskan landscape, to the powerful winter storm the team had to navigate through, and ultimately the treacherous shortcut across the open ice of Norton Sound, racing against the violent breakup of the sea ice.

One of the main aspects of DNEG’s work on Disney+’s Togo was the need to create a realistic CG dog that would look identical to the on-set dogs used in the film including believable facial animations. During post production our VFX team had to dive into all the complex canine locomotive mechanics during the Norton Sound Ice crossing sequence and also tackle the challenges of how to create believability when animating 11 CG dogs sliding across a tipping sheet of ice.

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