If only there were as many people wanting to volunteer time on Sanctuary as people wanting to know all the details and when they can see it.... but you won't catch me complaining about buzz.
How to obsfucate? Here's one tip from the current promos for The Simpsons - the movie.
RADIO ONE DJ
So what can you tell us about the movie?
ACTOR
It'll be around ten dollars.
What a great day. John Kelly just did a blitzkrieg 10 or so hours grading Sanctuary at Molinare on an Avid Symphony and it's looking great. We've got a first pass done of most of the film and pretty much established the look of the real and virtual perspectives. The work to-date has been played out to tape and I'll be taking it to Saltzburg for my Sony DADC presentation (to the Blu-Ray group) on Tues.
My main concerns watching the film for most of the day is that we've got to get blue-screen comps and test animations underway - so much to do. Blade definitely needs to be set up in the Blake's space VFX shots and mucho sound design to be created. But we've got some momentum again which is great.
Steve finalised the conform last night at White City and played it back out onto HDCAM tape. It was a late one but went pretty smoothly.
We did most of the conform a while back but not having ready access to an HD video deck meant that there's been a bit of a delay to plugging the few holes and bug-fixing a few things. Funny what a relief it is, in this hard-drive era, to see all the hard work on a plain old tape. I guess I'm just a bit paranoid about failing electronics and dropping things. Now we can move onto grading proper.