• Introduction
• Setup
• Examples
• Recap
• Questions

Real-world history of a film FX experiance

• The Big Picture
• What do you have to do vs. what resources do you have
• Being professional
• Being flexible
• Prepare for the disaster

There's always some things you'll need for a job that are impossible to plan - but luck favors the prepared.

And then, they needed a VR sequence... (paul)

• Nobody on staff who's done 3D characters (andy)
• Bring in the fall guys (andy)

How we gonna pull this off? (paul)

• Who the hell are you? (andy)
• The long lunch (paul)

You stall - I'll invent process technology! (paul)

• Design and the art of pulling sets out of your butt (andy)
• Storyboards of WHAT? (andy)
• Make-ing things complex (paul)
• Iteration - chaos made better (paul)

When are you guys going to start shooting stuff? (andy)

• The long kiss goodnight (paul)
  • Instant flying logo

• Juggling setup (andy)

Frames would be nice... (andy)

• Something to show the boss NOW! (paul)
• Design drawings as distraction (paul)

We were told the source footage would be stabilized... (andy)

• Image stabilization - just another script (paul)
• Face-Slapper LIVES!
• Where ARE my frames? (andy)

5 shots - overnight, no waiting (andy)

• Show something tomorrow - or you're gone (paul)
• The machine cranks up - hold on to your butts (paul)

4 shots, everyday for the next 6 days (andy)

• Set it - block it - animate it - oh, my! (paul)
• So, you CAN do a walk loop - right? (andy)

It doesn't say 'Wow' to me (paul)

• Changes for bad direction (andy)
• Using anything we can get our hands on (paul)
  • Whitney Houston to City on the edge of forever..

Can you make it look not so REAL? You know, more 'computery' (andy)

• Days of animation - destroyed by linear interpolation (paul)

We'd like to add our REAL guy into the VR space - is that a problem? (andy)

• Polygon projection - you're kidding, right? (paul)

Take ONE, that's a rap (andy)

• Record it - love it - approve it (andy)

 

• This is a joke - I could pull better shots out of my...
  • The 'Whip Pan' (paul & Andy)

 

• Now that we can create more shots... (Andy)

• Done early - you're fired (paul)

Questions (Andy & Paul)