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Queued for this evening. This is one of my favorite spacey topics. If the world can get it together and go my way, I wish to retire to a moon colony and fly my descendants up regularly for visits.

Your mom?
The smell?
Trolly punks who don't listen to the episode and then post snarkyness?

Porn films and erotic lit? I like where this is headed!  That old gray trenchcoat's around here somewhere...

I know what Tibet is, they need to be freed right?  But who's Sino?

Now we're talking!

I've never been totally satisfied with the 3D track on several of those shots...we've been learning as we go about how best to include tracking marks.  The first round of stuff (the live Dorothy elements) were all shot first while the girl was still, you know, a young girl, and the only markers were placed on the greenscreen itself.  So I ended up grabbing tracking marks off nails in the walls, chips in the concrete floor, light stands and bits of the overhead garage door tracks...most of which was kept deliberately out of frame after the action call.

Synth Eye's has the ability to build a little 3D world based on a few stills taken from various positions and then relate a real shot back to that world.  It produces it's best guess as to what the camera is doing from what we see, and what it's been taught about where the tracking markers 'really' are. Takes dozens of hours of screwing around with it, I can tell you...I'm aware that I'm the sort who will let the perfect stand in the way of the good, so I eventually had to Dobby-punish myself to let the tracks go to final as they were. We've discussed coming up with a smoothing method in the post-tracking 3D software that keeps the main details of the track intact while limiting the jitters, but everything I tried made the elements slide against the CG background (worse than they still do, I mean...)