Compositing Completed ^ ^

So I just finished compositing the last shots just now...

So it'll take about a week for them all to render...as you can see rendering is a bit behind...

Once they are all done rendering... I'll import all the 10bit Sheer rgb mov's for all the shots and render them out to Pjepg mov's... then I'll watch them all and make notes for errors...and after they are all reviewed I'll fix the errors and re-render them... but all that should not take very long..perhaps a day or two...

So it took me about a month to comP all 1660 shots... the only time it slowed down was on shots where I had to add in practical elements to enhance fx... like on gunshots, things bursting out of the ground etc... I shot my own little library of practical fx awhile back with my lil Canon hf100... BUT I only used about %10 of them as most of them I shot the wrong way... I shot most of the elements too close.... I should of done wider shots so I could use them like sprites instead of elements that fill the screen... those aren't very useful...so next time I shoot practical elements I know exactly what to do so they will be really useful...

I ended up doing secondary color correction for almost every shot, relighting them with heavily feathered masks on colored solids set to add mode...which look GREAT in 32bpc...

I'll definitely do a video tutorial where I comp a shot from the film from start to finish to show you my techniques and little tricks... I'll pick one where I did all kinds of tricky thangs with track mattes and stuff... You can do A LOT in After Effects with just a beauty pass, a depth pass and your 3d camera from yer 3d scene... BUT if I did it again I'll render a material luminance pass too...

For the most part everything looks great...cept for the lighting in some sequences in the middle of the film so its probably a good thing I did them in order... every set is a challenge to light and try to get perfect...I won most of those battles but a few were stalemates .... I MIGHT challenge them again if I have time and feel its necessary after reviewing all the renders...

So I'll do a whole lot of rendering for about a week then get some music and cut a trailer ^ ^Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.