February 7, 2006

• BUILDING AND COMPOSITING

  The team continues to chug the project away, paying attention to minute details in every aspect of the movie. Currently the team can be seen broken up into various departments.

  

  Here are the walls of demeter being built. Basically, a concept drawing is taken and done into what is known as technical drawings. These drawings are then scanned into the computer and from a 2D image, these guys here are responsible with bringing it alive from all dimensions. Using their specific reference pictures, they built the framework of what will become Demeter.

  

  Olympia is basically built building by building. These row of guys built wire frame models of the buildings...buildings after buildings after buildings. The fact that these guys can stare and squint for long periods of time is beyond me. But that's what they do, and what they do best. Gotta love it!

  

  Over here, they are creating the effects of the Transcoder. that term may sound alien to you now, but it's the hero effect of the movie. You'll know what it is when you see the actual movie. I'm trying to refrain from telling much of the movie, and rather the step by step, making-of process.

  

  Many of you saw the Aereann Flyer Design a while ago...if not...this is how it looks
  
  Bearing in mind that the Aereann Flyer is not a creature but rather a technological advance. The guys above built every part of the Aereann Flyer, from the mechanism to gears. Yes, that's because I will have a shot of the camera going into the Aereann Flyer. Must be fun to fly in and out of gears, love it!

  

  These guys create what is known as compositing. Taking the green out and creating mattes for the guys to merge it together with the movie. They have to take every step and care to make sure no detail is left into the picture. Unlike television movies, the resolution is extremely high and mistakes are more easily spotted on the big screens than your regular television. It's either spot the mistakes now or pay later.

  

  Here is where wire frame models are brought into the actual movie to give a feel of the framing, camera movement and to test whether this is what I want. Obviously, tracking and other complicated shots are done as a rough draft now. The important thing is for me to identify whether we should continue working or try different tactics of VFX framing and work.

  Then, finally, the test footage is brought over to Editing department, where they will insert the shots. The team gathers around and we discuss what needs to be done and changed before we move on to the next few shots. All that work, and they just tests!

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