In an effort to mirror some of the animation systems that deFaria relied on at DreamWorks, Framestore was established as the hub. It’s a digital chain, albeit on vulnerable analog pieces, but that’s just the way it is.” Now we’re up and running and we’re finishing the movie. “We turned this system around in about four days. “But we wanted to make sure that if we couldn’t get that to work, we were able to do it using distributed drives,” deFaria said. The first stage was to make sure they could manage a cineSync workflow with redundant drives distributed to editorial, and then relying on commercial media sharing systems, Pix and BOX, they set the stage for a more remote access to a central server.
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They then committed to the cineSync software conferencing system they’ve utilized in the past. So that way, he was not responsible for downloading and organizing media.” We also installed a remote access server in the director’s home that we could control with a login. The assistant editor’s wasn’t, so we very quickly augmented his internet capability at his home with the additional drop of a telephone line. “We took some immediate steps, planning to hub this thing out of the editorial servers with a redundant hub out of the visual effects vendor, Framestore, whose bandwidth and throughput are extraordinary. We are relying on some amazing software partners to get this done. “With Warner Bros.’ help, we implemented a secure remote access, decentralized, distributed media workflow,” added deFaria. Very quickly, the third option became unavoidable. Editor Peter Elliot (“Shaft,” “Iron Man 3”) and deFaria both returned to LA. Story lives in London with his family and decided to stay. But while they were analyzing scenario number two, deFaria decided that everybody should go home to their families. Within 12 hours, the first scenario was moot. “And with each of them, I asked to run three scenarios: status quo but with travel restrictions a decentralized workflow with a central hub in London for editorial or decentralize everything.” “We broke ourselves out into departments: editorial, visual effects, animation, and overall post-production management,” he said.
While shooting is complete on the hybrid directed by Tim Story (“Shaft”), which stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a New York hotel executive embroiled in a cat-and-mouse with the iconic Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, the editing and CG animation by Framestore are proceeding remotely as a result of the digital workflow.įortunately, producer Chris deFaria (former head of DreamWorks Animation and, before that, president of animation and innovative tech at Warner Bros.) took proactive steps to mobilize remotely at the beginning of March. That’s a great advantage for Warner Bros.’ live-action/animated “Tom and Jerry” feature (March 5, 2021). With no live-action shooting possible because of the global lockdown, animation and post-production, however, are continuing productively via social distancing.