Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Wish Films and kids virtual television

Joel keeping it real and the new Wish Films machine room


Jim Jam and Sunny is a new ITV children's show that uses animatics and a virtual set. I've been buidling a system up there based around a Terrablock SAN for a tapeless workflow that involves using several bits of software;

  • Boujou allows you to drive motion-track data from video - essentially if you didn't have telimetry data from your camera pedestal you can get motion data from the footage.
  • Maya which is the 3D modeller that is used for character animation.
  • Fusion 5 by Eyeon Software is used for the final composite.
We also installed a couple of Avid Express rooms for offline editing and an Avid Adrenaline for online and finishing.
The perenial problem with ExpressPro is getting AES audio in and out - see a previous post here but I just had a call from Chris to say that the ADI 192 works very well. Not cheap though - almost as much as the Digi 002! When will that thing have digital audio!?

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