Movies get bigger. Budgets get bigger. Explosions get bigger. What doesn’t get bigger? Timelines. As studios try to cram more and more cheap VFX into the same timelines as traditional films, studios find themselves unable to cope with all of the effects in-house. Modern movies now find themselves split among half-dozen or dozens of studios, forcing the studios to cooperate and share their previously proprietary technology. In a new blog post from The Molecule, they discuss this emerging trend.
When we talk about the big players, ILM, Framestore, Digital Domain, etc., it’s without a doubt they dominate many of the large-scale projects, however it is not uncommon for them to collaborate with smaller firms to achieve the best end-result. Whether that collaboration is inspired by skill-set, geography, budget or schedule, this collaboration isn’t anything new to the industry.
And, on a proud side-node, they actually referenced VizWorld! Glad to see VizWorld getting some recognition in the industry.
Update 3:58pm: Fixed the Quote.
via Everything looks better after The Molecule: On Industry: The VFX Playground.
