Forum: VFX Supervision / Pre-Production

Hi Guys, I always thought that yellow trackers on greenscreen is the best solution because in 90% cases you can pull one key for both green and yellow. Recently I saw that in Wrath of the Titans and Hugo they used red trackers on greenscreen and I wonder why. Because of better...

In case you will need, supervision. Vfx shots on shooting or comping. shots in house. Just let me know. ;) I worked with some of the world's leading directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Reynolds and Tom Tykwer. www.peternemec.com

Hi! I am learning matchmoving and trying to track this shot with PFTrack. The User Tracks are sticks to the markers, I have some measurements of the distances. When I try to solve the camera the path is weird-looking, and jumping around. I will pleased if someone can give me some instructions...

Hi guys and girls. First of all, I want to thank this community for loads of great tips and knowledge being shared here. Many times your posts helped me a lot. The time has come to open my first thread and to ask my first question with a great hope someone will help me and point me in...

Greetings, I'm in prep on a short film where the location has a large mirror against one wall. I was intending to cover it in a matte and mount a framework around it to turn it into an exterior window in post. But now I suddenly got the idea that maybe it would be better to leave the...

Hi there I was a bit confused in the differences for cg supervisor and Vfx supervisor. In what aspect they differ? -S

Hi, I work for a small production company in the Midlands (UK) and we're starting to introduce elements of vfx into our work. It's early days to say the least, and we're learning on our feet. So next week we're shooting a fairly simple idea that sees 2 people talking across a table in an empty...

Hi Guys, I am an artist from India having 7 years of experience in the VFX Industry.Me along with some of my friends started a new VFX company here in India. I need help from you guys as i had got a chance to work on a high end VFX movie starting this year. Seriously it i a rewarding and...

Alright, so I like to go film at a nearby school after hours. Now with daylight savings time doing its usual BS, I only have one or two hours to film after I get home, unless I do this on weekends. I happen to have 2 super-bright (like basically blinding) lights that came with a greenscreen that...

I got a question if I can take a picture/movie-clip of a person, and make that person look like they lost 20 kilograms or more. I've done stuff like this before, but only a little bit thinner. This was asked to make a heavy (100-130 kg) person look like normal, probably with some muscles. May...

Hello all. Here is A link to the shot I would like to re-create. Any help would be great..My limited experience in 3D packages is what has me struggling with pulling it off. So any input/guidance from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Here is a link to the Shot. ...

Hello everyone, we are going to shoot a scene at the office of a stadium, and you can see the football fans through the windows in the background. There would be a slight camera movement. I was wondering what would be a good way to do fill up the stadium with people I found some similar...

Hi there, I am currently in pre-production for a short film which requires a realistic crowd shot. It's set in a concentration camp so the goal is to populate the empty camp with about a thousand prisoners, mixture of young/old/male/female. I am a university student and in my toolbox I have...

Hi, I'm going to supervise and do all the vfx shots of a small film, but I'm particularly concerned about this shot where the actor shoves his entire hand and a little bit of his arm into his mouth looking for a piece of food, it's a horror kind of movie, it's a frontal medium shot, the camera it's...

Hi We are going to be filming this shot and I wanted to get some ideas from the community for advice on achieving this shot. It's going to be a man passing some wheat ears to another person or dropping on table and we want them to turn into a brochure or business cards. Any advice on...

I am planning a film to shoot on low budget,its about 90 min,which digital camera is best one to shoot,somebody telling canon 5d and some Panasonic, Sony and i have one doubt, these cameras are not 2k format i think it's HD 1080-when transferring HD to 2k is there any loss of quality or pixel-late...

I think I posted on the wrong section of the forums before so here it goes. How would you go about setting tracking marks for a blue screen circular close up shot? The shot starts over the actress' shoulder and then spins around her and ends on a medium close up. Would marks on the screen and...

please help me guys i'm toooooooooo desperate ryt now i've been searching many sites watching many videos but none helped i can't find any help this is my last hope. the problem is i record my screen with camtasia 7 by using XVID compressor at 30fps, i need to record full screen & my screen...

I've written up a tutorial on VFX supervision, aimed mostly at people working in commercials. All suggestions and comments welcome !. http://www.rethinkfx.com/tutorials/vfx-supervision-1

Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible to create motion blur for objects in a freeze frame. it's a bit like the philips carousel film, obviously not that long, it's just a pan from left to right. But I would like to apply motion blur to certain objects in the scene. I was thinking about...

Hi :) I'm setting up a shot where the actor is being set on fire. The first shot is locked off and starts at his feet so that's pretty straight forward but later he will be moving around and then walking through a camera move. It's most likely going to be tracked in pftrack or syntheyes...

Hi :) I'm setting up a shot where the actor is being set on fire. The first shot is locked off and starts at his feet so that's pretty straight forward but later he will be moving around and then walking through a camera move. It's most likely going to be tracked in pftrack or syntheyes with...

Hi :) I'm setting up a shot where the actor is being set on fire. The first shot is locked off and starts at his feet so that's pretty straight forward but later he will be moving around and then walking through a camera move. It's most likely going to be tracked in pftrack or syntheyes with...