The class started by reviewing our Balloon Festival work, which we all have been working on it for a long time.
The class was more based on theory and less on using the software. Gonzalo was giving us some tips which will help us grow and understand the workflow of a VFX company. The first tip he gave us is to review our work before publishing the work, I felt it was the best advice because a lot of times I had not seen my work and given it to clients because they wanted it ASAP and later realised that there is jump cut or a black screen.
The stages in the production.
- Temps/Postviz: This team help to get the VFX in low quality to understand the tone of the movie.
- Trailers: For a movie to get good PR they have to publish trailers on youtube and IMDB. So this team tries to gather a shot clip which can be published.
- Finals: When the client is done with all the corrections and changes. This will be the final.
- QC: Is also known as quality control, VFX Supervisor looks at every pixel and makes sure that it looks good to publish.
Every company has its own way of commuting and organisation with their employers. Google docs and sheets, Ftrack, and Shotgun are the few software which VFX compy use to communicate, all of them have they’re pro and cons, but Shotgun is used for VFX solely.
They are a different way of reviewing dailies.
- Desk dailies review: this is a more friendly way of reviewing, there is a VFX supervisor, VFX producer, line producer and lead comp.
- Small Cinema dailies: This is a little fancier, the line producer generally calls the meting. In this dailies, we will see the lead CG, lead comp VFX supervisor, VFX producer, line producer, lead comp and sometimes the client.
- Big Cinema dailies: lead CG, lead comp, VFX supervisor, VFX producer, line producer, lead comp, editorial, lighting lead, client producer, client VFX supervisor, client director and sometimes the client.