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iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 13.05.07Things are getting even crazier at work as we have just two weeks left to finish some major projects. I haven’t had much luck keeping the blog updated, but thought I might take a break and post a rough comp of the current matte painting I’m working on.
Using some of the trees I did for a previous matte painting, I forested my naked cliffs the other week. Not surprisingly, that’s when I discovered I could no longer live with only 2.5Gb of RAM, and finally got to upgrade! 
After a break from the environment stuff to deal with the live action greenscreen footage, I’m back working on the clouds, atmosphere, and lighting.
While it might not be all that interesting, I’m trying to document some of the techniques being used in the sequence. One in particular is the Lightwave expressions used to blend between two camera paths; not something I’ve ever had to do before, but the result is great for mixing CG camera animation and 3D track information.
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Wow!