Nina Denning

9. Compositing

Posted on 22 June, 2016  in MDU115

Compositing is where the special effects team takes most of the action, this is where the visual effects such as explosions take place, along with final touch-ups and editing. For live action movies, this can be where the live footage is blended with computer generated footage to create a scene. (Chang, A). An example of an animated movie that contains a heap of special effects is The Good Dinosaur. Pixar needed double the amount of special effects to create this insane scenery. 

Image retrieved form: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/09/pixar-studios-doubles-effects-in-upcoming-film-the-good-dinosaur/

Water plays a big part in this movie, which was a challenge to Pixar’s animators, they featured more than 125 shots of the water, the river scene alone takes up more storage in special effects than the entirety of special effects in Cars 2, (Zakrzewski, C. 2015) this would’ve taken a loooooong time to render.

References:

1. Zakrzewski, C. (2016). Pixar Studios Doubles Effects In Upcoming Film ‘The Good Dinosaur’. TechCrunch. Retrieved 28 June 2016, from https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/09/pixar-studios-doubles-effects-in-upcoming-film-the-good-dinosaur/
2.  Chang, A. (2016). The Process of 3D Animation | Media-Freaks.com. Media-freaks.com. Retrieved 26 June 2016, from http://media-freaks.com/the-process-of-3d-animation/