CMU School of Drama


Sunday, September 14, 2008

Creating Previsuals… How far is useful ?

LiveBlog: "The idea is utterly reasonable; maybe even compelling (especially for the directors and choreographers). My suspicion is that we’re going to do this a lot more, and it has me thinking about how we adjust the studio pipeline and process to accommodate it. It’s not an insubstantial effort. 2 days of compositing to create the viz, then render time. Then another day to edit those together in to a finished show. All of this predicated on being done in a larger sense with content of course."

3 comments:

BWard said...

"I will often dirty them up, make them look more sketched, so that some of the intended end result is left to the imagination."

that's a great idea. i've even run into problems with myself getting stuck on details i've drawn into a sketch only to realize a much simpler way to do something while building it.

Anonymous said...

Plus with the vizualizations it helps define the amount of space for everyone involved. I did a mock up "3d" model in undergrad as experiment to see what could be gained afterward with the designers and it was really cool. It put everyone on the same page in terms of the amount of room we had to work with for the dance numbers, actors, yadda ya. I could can imagine that it's a nice cost saving technique for large budget productions to be able to see how everything has to fit together and work with the overall design. Sure a model box works but there's an extra layer of flexibility i the virtual realm.

Megan Spatz said...

I totally understand the director wanting to see a detailed version of the scenery because it would inform them of how to work with the space. I do feel that it might rob the designer of room to improvise and discover new things if the entire set is finished and detailed. So perhaps if the director is aware that the visual representation is a guideline and that it isn't set in stone yet, then the designer will be able to continue elaborating on the design.