[Leica] OT: 35mm film cameras

[bonvini at optonline.net (Jay)]

issue has usually been one of the director not being able to visualize what
things will look like.
By the way , what do you use for compositing? I was the second one to get a
Cineon license from Kodak back in 94 for the group I was building.
Used it at several other places, then watched Kodak step away from the
field. Did get as part of the Cineon deal a tour of Kodak's headquarters in
Rochester, quite an experience.

The trailer problems could be the rush to get comps for the trailer. Never
enough time.

Jay Ignaszewski


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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: 35mm film cameras


I understand that. I'm a visual effects supervisor / compositing
supervisor for feature films,
here in Los Angeles. Looking at the trailer there is evidence of
mismatched black levels in
the composites. The cause could be poor art direction, or technical in
nature. Sometimes the
director will say he wants to see the face and doesn't care if the
scene is only light by a single
candle. Who knows, but personally I have been disappointed by the
results they are getting with HD.

feli


On Apr 24, 2005, at 4:41 AM, Jay wrote:

> I agree.....might see a difference in the one coming up. They have had
> a
> chance to tweak the look.
> And it might just be blue screen, at least it used to be. Back in the
> days
> of photo chemical.
>
> Most of the plastic look, is attributable to the rendering of computer
> generated elements, CGI, these are processor intensive. ILM has their
> own
> proprietary render which figures out the light in a scene and
> calculates
> what the light would do in the real world and then emulates that. The
> 3D
> elements, CGI, are rendered out and then composited with the foreground
> blue/green screen elements into the final output. Compositing is done
> in a
> 2D world, which has a tendency to underscore any differences. (Ilm's
> group
> are the masters of the digital world, having been working at this
> since the
> late 70's - they did the first cgi shot for "Young Sherlock Holmes" -
> the
> stained glass knight that comes alive.)
> The use of cgi has literally changed the world of film. Photo realism
> is the
> goal in most scenarios, seldom achieved, but striven for.
>
>
> Jay Ignaszewski
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