Charlotte's menagerie managed with cineSync

Wednesday, 07 February 2007

For the children's feature Charlotte's Web, VFX companies all over the world were called on to create different individual characters to populate Charlotte's barnyard. In order to be able to co-ordinate and review the work at the different facilities, VFX supervisor John Berton Jr utilised a combination of iChat and cineSync, to great effect.

From the article at CG Society:

Sometimes characters created in various studios shared shots. Berton managed the compositing chaos at Paramount.

"Everyone played ball," Berton says. "Everybody understood that it was necessary to share images. We were very clear about what we wanted from the vendors so that everyone was sending the same file sizes." Berton used iChat and cineSync, developed by Rising Sun Research, which allowed the studios to view dailies using QuickTime over the Internet - a particular advantage once Berton moved back to California while work on Charlotte and other characters continued in Australia.

See the full article here.