Sounds very encouraging, like they know how to make the most of your work and help you to help them! That's the way I would go, with a couple of tracking shots so it doesn't ALL look like Ken Burns, but most of the dynamation shots leaving the move until after the critter's comped in where possible.
I've been in situations where I was assured of certain things that would make my task more do-able and in the rush it didn't happen that way - I'm certain you, and anyone else who's done freelance, would know all about that! And I was still expected to deliver, despite the conditions being totally different, and probably a week sooner and with a few extras thrown in at no extra cost. And if I didn't I was the villain. So it's hard now to feel confident that things will work out as promised unless I've worked with the people before. You've taken a leap of faith, and so far it looks like it will work out. Let's hope it's a big success and you can build on it for future projects. Establishing a working relationship with producers who "get" what you do is like gold!
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@Nick - They've been shooting high res shots a bit wider so that camera moves can be added later in post per my request. So camera moves are not the concern they would have been otherwise.
Tuesday, 16 November 2010 21:50
So, it sounds like they've shot most of it now, without you seeing the camera angles or having any direct input before it's shot? Let's hope the DoP has some sense of what's involved in inserting a creature - whether cgi or stopmo, it's much the same from his point of view.
There's a lot of animating with the 6-armed chick, but I've seen your attention to details - like a flick of the ear or a tail swing on top of head,body, and limbs in motion - so I think you'll pull it off. The part that would scare me is duplicating the camera moves. But it's good that the time for actually getting into the animation is so close now!
There's a lot of animating with the 6-armed chick, but I've seen your attention to details - like a flick of the ear or a tail swing on top of head,body, and limbs in motion - so I think you'll pull it off. The part that would scare me is duplicating the camera moves. But it's good that the time for actually getting into the animation is so close now!
Tuesday, 16 November 2010 21:43
Oh that stinks Ron, so you couldn't see anything at all? At least now your production crew knows to fix that problem for the next shoot. Does the DP have any animation skills at all?
Monday, 01 November 2010 20:57
FAIL! It ended up not working because there was a problem with trying to use the wireless internet with all the other equipment in the studio. :( It's really not that big of a deal but, it would have been nice... oh well.
Monday, 01 November 2010 17:37