Zack Snyder loves cineSync

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Legend of the Guardians, a collaboration between Australian VFX Studio Animal Logic (Happy Feet) and director Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300), faced some distinct communication challenges as Snyder worked on other projects in the US while animation work was being done in Australia.

In an interview with Frosty from film news site Collider, Zack Snyder and producer wife Deborah Snyder talked about a range of topics, including the process of remote collaboration. As he did on his previous film Watchmen, Snyder relied on cineSync for his visual communication with Animal Logic.

From Collider:

Question: So how was this whole experience for you, because being shot in Australia and everything you had to go back and forth all the time?

Zack Snyder: You know we do go back and forth a lot but I do have an awesome setup that’s sort of like a high-tech freak show at my office where I have this HD video monitor and I have a color correct monitor over here and there’s a monitor on the wall that shows what’s on the computer and then I have my tablet where I can draw on the frames. And that’s all linked cineSync to Australia. So I do 2 hours a day with Australians and it works out pretty good actually.

Debbie Snyder: And we can move it. Like we moved it up to Vancouver when we were shooting and we did it on the weekends when we were shooting and then we moved it back down to Burbank because now we’re editing, so it’s been really convenient.

If you haven't seen the awesome looking trailer yet, you can check it out along with the rest of this interview at Collider.