9 Finals!

We're on a roll! Rob Cohen talks about the vfx work that we're doing on The Mummy.. Read more at his blog.

The visual effects work is going on apace. We have nine finals at this point out of 800 shots. Sounds dismal and hopeless, but this is how vfx work goes: the first 50% of the time on 10% of the shots and the second 50% on the 90%. Meanwhile, over at Digital Domain, Co-supervisors Joel Hynek and Matthew Butler have been working with me on the terracotta Jet Li and the final battle where Michelle Yeoh's undead square off against Jet's terracotta army. There are 400 vfx shots in the last 25 minutes of the film, the vast majority belonging to DD.

The days are starting to get longer.. Waking up at 5:30am is getting to be the norm for me these days, and I'm spending approximately 12 hours per day at work right now. We did work yesterday, President's Day, since we've got a lot of stuff to do every week to hit our deadlines. The good thing is that sunlight is starting earlier! I still get up before the break of dawn, but now I get to watch the sun rise.