Re: Semi OT - master scene and/or shot-by-shot (long email ahead)

[Michal Doniec <mdoniec(at)btinternet.com>]

Bernard Lebel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're about to start layout on a 45 minutes full-cg show.
>
> A few of us here are debating the idea of doing the majority of the
> layout-previz and animation in a "master" scene. Such master scene
> would include basically all the cameras and animation for an entire
> sequence.
Other people said enough, I'd just add from myself that everytime I land 
in a situation like that (master scene) I end up with:
- recutting and manipulating 100000 frames long file.. usually with 
loads of heavy assets inserted.

- only to realize later that we have to rebuild lots of shots from 
scratch, because it's next to impossible to get proper framing and 
composition and usually the file is not manageable anymore after 10th 
revision or so.. (and usually things I work on aren't 45 minutes long 
but shorter)

Some kind of hybrid approach, making master scene only for previz 
purposes with very light placeholders and no animation besides simple 
translations, then possibly reusing cameras etc.. and split everything 
shot by shot, works better for me.


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Michal Doniec

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