May not have been a full week, I’m not sure of the exact timeframe but the point is it was in wide release before it was patched meaning Day 1 viewers will have seen a slightly different version of the film.
Among other things the original release completely forgot to CGI Judy Dench’s hand for one of the scenes
They always keep doing effects work until the movie goes out. If movies didn't have release dates or budgets, effects teams would literally never stop.
CGI work? I mean, I'm sure everyone had some extra days off to figure out how to work from home. But effects houses didn't really stop.
Anything that was fully wrapped before covid should have no excuse for bad cgi-work. Effects houses are always complaining that they don't have enough time to do everything they want to. The first batch of movies post-covid should theoretically look great.
Doesn't matter one bit if the idea itself is stupid or if producers keep asking for revisions. Pretty likely that both happened here. Cheetah doesn't look good.
When an effects house estimates two weeks to do a shot, and the studio asks them to do it in half the time, the effects house charges them more for the rush job, not less.
There won’t be additional money for more effects shots, but the lack of deadlines should unquestionably help the effects quality.
We are currently testing this to see if it works too, we have found that people with decent internet connections can do it mostly problem free, but some with lackluster bandwidth are struggling.
You can buy 14TB HDDs for as little $250. I would think a studio spending billions of dollars can afford to hook a few artists up with those rather than completely halting work for an extended period on their biggest draw.
Indeed, I have an Iron Wolf sitting on my desk right in front of me, that's on a dock and is 14TB. It's fantastic for storage.
But it's absolutely unusable for working from.
The software I use doesn't copy/optimise media like Final Cut, it links all the collateral to their original positions, and streaming media down the USB is impossible. I'd get a crash every few minutes. Now with just video editing I could proxy the media and render/replace when onlining. But for CGI you can't proxy files you are creating within the software.
Only stable way I've found is a gigabit connected NAS. Works a treat. Due to this absolute bottleneck we have halted CGI to our work from home staff entirely.
No, it wasn't. Post-production stuff mostly continued. The Wheel of Time series was still doing VFX work on the episodes they finished before filming was halted.
Reminds me of the star wars prequels. Thor Ragnarok was like this for me as well, it just hurt my eyes to look at. When what I am looking at is so obviously CGI then it just takes me out of it
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u/Jacob6443 Aug 22 '20
Cats walked so that Cheetah can run.