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| What was the software/hardware used to make 'This Wonderful Life' and how long did it take to produce? |
| I used 3ds max
with plug-ins for hair and cloth, World Builder for the landscape,
Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects for texturing, editing and compositing.
My hardware setup consisted of a PC with an Athlon 1.4ghz, 1.5gb RAM, 64mb Gforce graphics card. I then bought 3 more PCs with roughly this specification for rendering. Total hard drive space used was 200gb (spread accross 5 drives).
The movie took 23 months from start to finish (Feb 2001 - Jan 2003).
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While the main characters are 3D, how much of the environment is 3D and why did you use 2D elements? Did this cause any production problems? |
 All
the enviroments were created in 3D. The only 2D element was the sky. |
Doing anything on a computer tends to generate a large number of files, and a 3D short, what with scene files, texture maps, research data, Word documents, rendered images, etc could soon become unmanageable. How did you go about your asset management and was it successful? |
| Before I started the project I created all the folders and sub-folders in the arrangement that was most logical to me. All the rendered files were saved into the folder that corresponded with the camera used for that particular shot (e.g. Camera Face 01), so in the end I had around 100 folders each with their own set of sub-folders from each separately rendered layer. It worked very well, though I had to spread the renders across most of my drives, so there was a bit of navigating to do when bringing them all into After Effects.
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