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Reader SurveyConverging Pipelines
Oct 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Michael Goldman
Digital color grading for Seven Swords was done through Lustre, part of a unified Autodesk pipeline that also handled most of the film’s visual effects.
Australian sister facilities Digital Pictures Iloura and Digital Pictures Melbourne recently combined a Lustre-based digital intermediate workflow with an Autodesk-based visual effects workflow for the Chinese martial arts film Seven Swords. The movie, directed by Hark Tsui, was shot in China, with all dailies turned around at Digital Pictures Melbourne, which also performed the final assembly and color-grading work. Digital Pictures Iloura created 130 visual effects shots for the movie, plus 200 wire removals, says Peter Webb, visual effects supervisor on the project.
Autodesk's 3ds Max 7, Combustion 3, Flame 8.3.4, Smoke 6.7, and Lustre were the main visual effects tools, with Combustion also handling previz. “Lustre's grading ability is very impressive, and now that we have a digital theater [with a Barco D-Cine Premiere DP100 DI projector], it's a great solution for DI and dailies,” explains George Awburn, editor on the project. “We have Lustre interconnected with Smoke in the DI theater, and we can easily assemble in Smoke and then pick it up in Lustre for color correction — doing a full assembly. It's an efficient way to work.”
