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First Person: Creative Group Restores Gojira

Jul 21, 2009 12:00 PM, By Mike Buckner, general manager, Creative Group

In with the new to rescue the old.

We love the Da Vinci 2K because as far as the tools go, it's the best color corrector on the market. There are tricks that we can do using the Power Windows feature for multilayered area isolations for sections we want to vignette to visually repair, such as the left side of a scene, to the degree that the viewer would no longer know there was damage.

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The Digital Vision DVNR noise reducer was also a powerful tool to reduce the grain levels for comfortable viewing and acted as an electronic dirt cleaner. As it recognizes a big piece of dirt flying by, it will zap it. This and the Oliver system really gave us the opportunity to quickly and effectively clean up the original into something enjoyable to view.

Last, Smoke worked remarkably well just because it can take unwanted things out and offers the best toolset on the market as far as painting frame by frame out. With the power available and with the deadlines, Smoke is the quickest way to get from point A to point B for us. In the end, Creative Group has the right toolset, both mechanical and digital, to make the job of returning sci-fi monster Gojira to its original visual glory for Blu-ray production.

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