No communication horrors for Uninvited

Thursday, 05 February 2009

For the latest horror film from Dreamworks, the Guard Brothers' The Uninvited, the film-makers and VFX house CIS Vancouver used cineSync to easily facilitate communication between LA and Vancouver during post production.

Talking to VFX World, Visual Effects Supervisor Bruce Woloshyn said ""One of things that we did for the directors quite a bit was a lot of iterations. Because we used cineSync and ftp transfers we could send four or five versions with a different size twist of the neck [one of the signature effects in the film]. These guys come from commercial directing, and they're used to seeing umpteen versions and then picking one. So we'd give them a range to work within. By the time we'd sit down for a cineSync session they usually had already decided on one. This was a typical 21st century production -- we never ever sent anything physical to anybody. We did everything with cineSync sessions. I never ever had to get on a plane."

Woloshyn adds, "We have a way of sending stuff over an encrypted line that is basically like sending email -- with the picture hiding in it if you know where to click. It's very secure. They could look at things on their laptops. Directors are getting more and more tech savvy, and if you make it easy, they all want to use it."

To read the rest of the article, including some descriptions of how the effects were designed and created, check it out at VFX World.

The official site of Uninvited can be found here.