It Adds Up.

The final shot that I'm doing for this show is now done (or has been done for some time, now that the film is screening)! To give you an idea of how long it's taken me to complete it, here are some numbers..

113.5 regular hours and 102.5 OT hours = 267.25 regular hours = 33.4 regular 8 hr days

What's not included is the time for the other artists that worked on the shot! This was accomplished with three compers, one cg supervisor, one vfx supervisor, one comp supervisor, two animators, four matte painters, and seven fx artists. As you can see, it takes a lot of people to accomplish one shot, and lots of dedication and teamwork. Of course, We didn't work on it for a month and a half, it was more like half that time!

Total nodes: 3535 Channels in use: 56 Channels left: 8

What I want to mention is that there are a number of other bits in the comp that other artists contributed to. Each section in the tree that has a backdrop, mostly on the right side, was a separate artist. As well, a comp artist might just give me a precomp that I could plug in, so their work isn't shown in the schematic either. In addition, while I thought my comp was big, another artists on a different shot had a node count of over 4000. We don't make it that big because we want to. There's just so much experimentation and trying all sorts of different techniques to get a look, that often, we'll use bits and pieces from all the techniques. It adds up.