City of Ember connects to the world

Monday, 13 October 2008

In the latest film from Gil Kenan (Monster House), audiences are taken to the underground City of Ember. Shot in Ireland, with VFX work completed in Paris and Los Angeles, Kenan and VFX Supervisor Eric Durst used cineSync to coordinate their geographically distributed team.

From the article:

Kenan and Durst employed CineSync's live video chat technology to stay on top of all of these far-flung effects shops -- from Amalgamated Pixels in Agoura Hills, California to Luma in Venice, BUF in Paris and Below the Radar in Santa Monica. Kenan reports, "It was easy. CineSync was a life-changing concept for me. I was able to analyze high res Quicktimes the second they were finished rendering in Paris. It's the same stuff I was doing during Monster House when my cutting room was in Culver City and I'd drive four blocks to Sony Imageworks. So there's no reason not to use someone because of geographical limitations. That concept is obsolete now."

You can check out the extensive article on the VFX of City of Ember, including their usage of cineSync, here.

The official site of the film is here.