Good communication is Terminator's Salvation

Tuesday, 11 August 2009

The VFX work for Terminator:Salvation was spread all over the world, with nearly a dozen companies from the US, Canada and Australia. In an article with FXGuide, Asylum VFX and Rising Sun Pictures talk about the process of creating some of the effects and the use of cineSync as a way of managing communication between the production and the various contributors.

In the interview, Greg Yepes from RSP said "We had very frequent chats with the overall vfx supervisor for the show Charlie Gibson very regularly. We would ftp the work to be reviewed as Quicktime movies overnight and then used cineSync to review the material over a conference call. We spread the work on T4 across both our studios in Sydney and Adelaide, so we would conference in both offices during our chats with Charlie. Charlie was able to mark up any specific instructions through cineSync which made it easy to recall the specific instructions later on during reviews with the artists. We would use a similar process to review or chat about things with other vendors, using the client-side vfx hub at Warner Brothers to share data such as models, textures and such between the different vendors".

You can check out the rest of the interview, including a breakdown of several of the FX shots in the movie here