Peasant Village, Visual effects in live action
Peasant Village - Meat snake Compositing
The last couple of days I’ve been doing some rendering… some more rendering… and then some compositing… 
I finally got all the passes/layers to work properly. I used 16bit float OpenEXR for all the renders and I am now very much in love with the .exr file format. All compositing was done in Fusion. I kind of wanted to get started with Nuke, but thought it to be better to take one thing at a time. Compositing the shot has been loads of fun. Created my first clean plate ever (it’s not THAT clean, I know, hehe) and was surprised by how good it worked. There’s been a lot of tweaking, going back and forth, trying to find the right shading/look for the snake and getting it to fit in. Will probably tweak it a little further tomorrow. Anyways, here’s some stills.
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Comps
Passes
Fusion node tree
- Mmmm yum! Tasty looking snake.
Looking good guys, nice work. Is there a rendered quicktime that you could post (or have I missed it?)
Clients never approve on stills.
EXR is very much the vfx industry standard format, I'm glad you're using it.
Dayne
Posted by Dayne Cowan on 03/05 at 11:34 AM
- Thank you for the comment Dayne! Yeah, tasty looking was what I was going for! Hehe! I'll post a quicktime of the shot later this afternoon along with my progress on the face tracking shot. Yeah we're starting to love the flexibility and advantages of EXR. The compression is also quite good!
Posted by Christoffer Lindvall on 03/05 at 01:28 PM
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