Ceremony of Innocence
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Ceremony of Innocence was a Windows CD ROM based game created in 1997. It used a mystery narrative based on the Griffin and Sabine
novel by Nick Bantock
. The title was taken from a very famous poem, "The Second Coming," by Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
Ceremony of Innocence used an elaborate mystery game format with over 100 different artists, animators and musicians who were involved in its production. The core team of animators from Realworld Multimedia; Dan Blore, Brian Short and Karolyn Pike - all of whom had previously worked on Peter Gabriels 'EVE' CD-ROM, joined forces with Realworlds programmers Michael Dean, Darren Umney, Sam Deane, Matt Thurling, Peter Fierlinger, Joshua Portway
, Chris Wright, Sam Clegg, Andy Lovelock, David Bateman and Robert Mettler.
The CD-ROM
featured voice acting from Paul McGann
, Isabella Rossellini
and Ben Kingsley
. It used animation to tell the story of Griffin, a young English artist, and Sabine, his South Sea Island
muse. The game takes the form of a series of postcards sent between the two, which the player has to explore to continue. The work was produced by Peter Gabriel's Real World label by a team led by producer Gerrie Villon and creative director/chief designer Alex Mayhew.
Joining them was a team of internationally renowned artists specialising in 3D character models, clay-modelling, precision metalwork, pastel painting, and pencil drawings, plus computer-generated imagery; among them were Joan Ashworth, Ruth Lingford, Bedric Glaser, Jeff de Boer, and Jonathan Hodgson.
Ceremony of Innocence won over 17 international awards after its release, including the EUROPRIX 98 Overall Winner, and two BAFTA's [1998] for Best Moving Image and Best Sound.
Griffin and Sabine
Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence is an epistolary novel by Nick Bantock, published in 1991 by Chronicle Books in the United States and Raincoast Books in Canada. It is the first novel in The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy and was a bestseller in 1991...
novel by Nick Bantock
Nick Bantock
Nick Bantock is a British artist and author based in Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Bantock is well-known for his popular series, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, and for making collage popular...
. The title was taken from a very famous poem, "The Second Coming," by Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
Ceremony of Innocence used an elaborate mystery game format with over 100 different artists, animators and musicians who were involved in its production. The core team of animators from Realworld Multimedia; Dan Blore, Brian Short and Karolyn Pike - all of whom had previously worked on Peter Gabriels 'EVE' CD-ROM, joined forces with Realworlds programmers Michael Dean, Darren Umney, Sam Deane, Matt Thurling, Peter Fierlinger, Joshua Portway
Joshua Portway
Joshua Portway is an artist and game designer. He is a frequent collaborator with Lise Autogena, for example on their Black Shoals stock market planetarium project. He is also the author of the series of interactive music pieces...
, Chris Wright, Sam Clegg, Andy Lovelock, David Bateman and Robert Mettler.
The CD-ROM
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....
featured voice acting from Paul McGann
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role...
, Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.-Background and early life:Rossellini is a...
and Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
. It used animation to tell the story of Griffin, a young English artist, and Sabine, his South Sea Island
South Sea Islander
The Australian label South Sea Islanders refers to the Australian descendants of people from the more than 80 islands in the Western Pacific including the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in Melanesia and the Loyalty Islands, Samoa, Kiribati, Rotuma and Tuvalu in Polynesia and Micronesia who were...
muse. The game takes the form of a series of postcards sent between the two, which the player has to explore to continue. The work was produced by Peter Gabriel's Real World label by a team led by producer Gerrie Villon and creative director/chief designer Alex Mayhew.
Joining them was a team of internationally renowned artists specialising in 3D character models, clay-modelling, precision metalwork, pastel painting, and pencil drawings, plus computer-generated imagery; among them were Joan Ashworth, Ruth Lingford, Bedric Glaser, Jeff de Boer, and Jonathan Hodgson.
Ceremony of Innocence won over 17 international awards after its release, including the EUROPRIX 98 Overall Winner, and two BAFTA's [1998] for Best Moving Image and Best Sound.