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This article work in progress as I try and sort out the best VFX workflow for myself and those working with me.
It seems to me to the best option is to use REDLogFilm and save compressed 16BIT exr files or 10bit dpx files. REDLogFilm directly copies the Cineon spec and we can use our standard Log to Linear workflows.
But …
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These are the tweets of Pixar story artist Emma Coats. These words of wisdom have been compiled and republished in various writers’ blogs. I love this stuff … so here they are again.
Motion capture is great but it almost never quite fits the location or the character rig. Often it requires a little tweaking or, worse still ,modifications are needed that take the data further and further from the source file ( Rifles are changed to pistols etc).
Animation layers are useful but only get you so far until your simply fighting the data trying to figure out when and where things are happening.
Eventually we have to dismantle that wall of motion captured key frames into something more manageable.
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