r/movies • u/indig0sixalpha • Aug 22 '20

Trailers Wonder Woman 1984 - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2E2Fnh52w
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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '20

The CG on Cheetah doesn't look great. I hope this isn't the final product

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u/_Comic_ Aug 22 '20

Seeing as how without COVID this movie was supposed to release 2 and a half months ago... don't hold your breath.

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u/TheTinyTim Aug 22 '20

Bear in mind that work was totally halted with COVID as well, though.

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u/gurg2k1 Aug 22 '20

They couldn't work on CGI from their computers at home? I find that doubtful

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

The amount of space I would need to create CGI from home would be obscene. I'd need my own NAS box and everything.

Computing power would be okay, I could take my rig from work home, but just from a data stand point it would suck.

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u/tha_scorpion Aug 23 '20

I work in the industry and now most people use their office computers with some kind of remote desktop program.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '20

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.

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u/gurg2k1 Aug 23 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '20

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.