Directors See the Power of Pre-visualization with Entity FX
July 29, 2006
Ready...and...PRE-VIS! DGA Digital Day 2006 saw The Director's Guild of America hosting Entity FX on a panel discussing pre-visualization and the creative process. Pre-vis has become more and more essential for planning and executing projects across film and television, and Entity FX's Mat Beck brought this to light for a capacity audience using real-world examples from the company's work on the hit show Smallville.
The presentation outlined the many benefits of pre-vis for directors and productions, including:
Working out camera angles, shooting diagrams and green-screen logistics in advance.
Delivering vital details about what's needed from live actors, CG characters and visual effects elements.
Honing creative ideas and mapping out technical logistics that would otherwise take up precious
production time on-set.
Streamlining and speeding entire visual effects and post-production process.
It also demonstrated that pre-vis is now possible and practical even for the fast pace of series television, and that it is can be completed by the same companies that are also handling final visual effects work. Beck also explained the increasingly popular and useful technique of "post-vis," in which pre-visualized sequences are re-visited by compositing in filmed elements following the actual shoot.
