Spider-man on EPICs...

[Joseph Hutson]

Would love to see some real cool behind the scenes videos....

They should have called me...

 

[ChrisLyon]

Some behind the scenes photos of the same street scene we've been seeing. EPIC is easily identifiable.

http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/celebr...pictures-spider-man-andrew-garfield.html#stop

 

[Marc Wielage]

Why not remove the Cineon 4K render from the equation entirely?

Actually, everybody is using 2K and 4K DPX as kind of the standard lingua franca of post. (Cineon was the predecessor to DPX, about ten years ago.) There's a lot of different formats out there, but towards the end, that's a fairly interchangeable file format for effects people, editors, colorists, and delivery people. The reality is that for a film that's going to be this effects-intensive -- and 3D to boot -- end-to-end 4K throughout post would be nearly impossible, assuming 104MB per stereo image frame (2x52MB). They're gonna have their hands full just dealing with hundreds of hours of 3D 2K material.

A picture on the scale of a Spider Man film will usually have a lead VFX vendor, but will involve many other VFX vendors as well.

I believe Sony Pictures Imageworks is the lead VFX firm, but I was told that Company 3 in Santa Monica will handle all the conforming, color, and final delivery, but Michael Cioni of Light Iron Digital is a post consultant as well. Not sure whether Sony Colorworks is handling the dailies or not. The film isn't coming out for 18 months, so things can always change.

The other interesting Sony film going on right now is Men in Black 3, which they decided to do in film, rather than 3D digital.

 

[Brook Willard]

Lots of speculation, this thread is funny.

 

[Peter Lyons Collister ASC]

Brook you should be asleep since you guys wrapped so early. We on 2nd unit actually used the entire night to shoot!!!!
Bon weekend

P

 

[joshua csehak]

However, he's incorrect in presuming that IMAX DCPs are not 4K masters. They are 4K masters which are often (but not always) up rezzed from source data that is 1920x1080 or 2K. The projection systems are however 2K and they must do an internal conversion / downsampling of some sort the benefits of which I don't know.

Really? IMAX projects in 2k?

 

[Zac C]

Its always fun to try to find the epic in this picture... then realize its there, but so small compared to the rest of the rig.