Giant Squid 

At the National Centre for Computer Animation, UK, a research team lead by Dr Vassilios Hurmusiadis (animator), Jacqueline Wrather (artist), Gary Leonardi (assistant animator)), under the direction of David Allen (Oxford Scientific Films), worked for three months to produce a 3D computer animation of a giant squid and a sperm whale. "Incredible Suckers" is a documentary about cephalopods (squid, octopodes, cuttlefish, etc.), produced by Oxford Scientific Films Ltd and commissioned by the BBC. The documentary "Incredible Suckers" was at first broadcast, in the UK, by BBC2 in January 1996, as part of the "Natural World" series. It was then broadcast by 13-WNET in the USA. The film has won an award at the Wildscreen Film Festival (Bristol 1996). The animation "Incredible Suckers" has since been broadcast by C4 (in "Absolutely Animals" 1997), also by German TV (Welt der Wunder, RTL 1996), Canal+ (France 1997) and it has participated in Bit.Movie '96 film festival in Italy.
 
 

The data of the giant squid model have been used to mill the negative of the squid in foamed plastic blocks and to construct a positive form in laminated plastics. After painting with airbrush the model has been mounted at its place in the Ubersee-Museum Bremen, Germany.