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MillimeterIntegrated Post Workflow is Key to Survival on Lost
Jan 10, 2006 3:41 PM
Who wants to be stranded on a tropical island with a polar bear, a mystical boar, and a mysterious group of people known as “the others”? No one. Who wants to watch people stranded on a tropical island with these and many other dangers? Millions.
Call it a human need for suspense or simply a desire for imaginative storytelling, but ABC’s Emmy Award winning Lost has attracted a large following of viewers who are addicted to the travails of the castaways from Oceanic Air’s Flight 815.
Around the same time that sound work is done, or sometimes before it even arrives in L.A., Lost’s effects partner, Honolulu-based, Cause & F(x) Productions, handles wire removal, set extensions, and modeling with the SOFTIMAGE|XSI system.
With a wide range of visual effects per episode, tight product compatibility with the Avid Film Composer and Avid DS Nitris systems makes a big difference in terms of staying on schedule.
Kai Bovaird, the owner and executive director of the company notes, “SOFTIMAGE|XSI is one of the best commercial modeling tools on the planet. We could never turn our work around so fast without it.” He adds that he has converted a number of local artists to the system and sees Softimage expertise as a key draw for landing future effects projects in Hawaii.
Find more information about the postproduction of Lost on Avid's site at:
http://www.avid.com/profiles/060109_lost_dsnitris.asp?dm=lostHP
Photo Credit: ABC/Mario Perez
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