Magical Collaboration

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Director Jon Turteltaub's latest film The Sorceror's Apprentice saw VFX contributions from facilities all over the world (including our own sister company Rising Sun Pictures here in Australia). London's Double Negative completed around 380 shots for the film. Since the production's VFX Supervisor and Director were based in the USA, Double Negative made extensive use of cineSync to manage the collaboration.

Speaking with The Art of VFX, Double Negative VFX Supervisor Adrian De Wet had the following to say about the collaborative process:

"From day 1 of pre-production the collaborative process was in full swing. Jon Turteltaub was always very receptive to other people’s ideas. From the initial meetings in New York, through to principal photography, and continuing into post, there were constant discussions between Jon Turteltaub, John Nelson, and the team at Double Negative. Of course, in post, Jon Turteltaub and John Nelson were in LA and we were in London, so we made full use of cineSync, which is a tool for visual communication which enables one to write on media files that are played back in sync. Most of our creative development was done using this method of collaboration."

To read the rest of the article and learn more about the process of creating all those shots, you can read more here.

The official site of The Sorcerers Apprentice is here.