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Re: Zarban's lightsaber battle project

Owen, I'm thinking about how to get shots out into the 'verse for VFX.

What software are you using?

The set extension & 3D element stuff (droid & ship) needs to be non-compressed at both ends of the pipeline, I presume. i.e. the artist known as Teague will need full-quality plates for his comps. Luckily he has the raw footage, and only needs to know which takes are in use.

For the roto work, I have Premiere cs6 and I could crop out the working takes (plus heads & tails) and put them up on Dropbox for saber roto. Do we think a good x264 compression is okay for that? Then the roto crew can deliver just the cores as PNG files.

It sounded like you and Tom had worked out the hologram stuff. If not, what's the plan for those?

Also, lightning, and any other FX elements I'm forgetting. Talk to me, Goose.

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Re: Zarban's lightsaber battle project

I love you.

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379 Reply by Faldor (edited by Faldor 2014-10-31 04:43:15)

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Re: Zarban's lightsaber battle project

wouldn't it make sense to go the uncompressed route with prores / DNxHD or an image sequence?

I'm sure one of us has an FTP would could sort out a file system for to move it all about

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Faldor, for the saber roto uncompressed is overkill. Roto crew doesn't need every pixel to be perfect.
Comp artists need raw or lossless, no doubt. The only official comp-ers AFAIK at this point are Teague and Tom.

Owen, I can't seem to get the trimmed project zip file to successfully DL, 4+ gigs is apparently a problem for some part of my system.  Can you make a link to the main project file? I already have the raw footage. (Or break the zip into several files?)

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Re: Zarban's lightsaber battle project

Perfect.
Now if an asteroid hits you, at least the project is secure!

...but I'm sure everything's fine in the asteroid department, so don't freak out.

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Re: Zarban's lightsaber battle project

It's exciting to see people talking about THINGS. Owen, that asteroid field looks terrific. A mysterious second ship even!

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That's his extra life; there's preparation for you.

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I'm completely swamped until next week. Once Owen, or anyone gives me locked plates of what I'm doing, I'll get started. Right now it's crunch time for Traveler Episode 2.

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I don't have any full-res files.

*enables Teague beacon*

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Good man!

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Just me or are those some super skinny blades?

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They look just fine, as far as first drafts go. Obviously the beam effect is just the core, and then glows will be applied to it.

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Oh those are just the cores? Never mind me then. As you were.

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Right, I intend those to provide a skeleton instead of trying to invent a consistent core frame by frame. Next, we'll roto over those beams and nobody will know.

Are we ready to commit to roto yet? The battle scene seems pretty close to final.
Has anyone got notes for Owen's cut before we lock?

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Drew, if you wanna take over on managing the post stuff for a while, I think you should do that. Lemme know what you need from me in terms of actual VFX shots.

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Cool, Sir.
I'll be sure to bring her back in one piece.

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I'll take the Abandoned base matte painting. I should be able to have it finished by the end of November

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Awesome Mr. Faldor. Let me know if you need screengrabs or anything like that for reference. I expect the mists and atmospherics will be done in the comp, so just a clear image of some extensive stonework compound is needed.

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