Every VFX house has its own internal proprietary “secret sauce” that they use on their projects, be it special compositors or fluid simulators or whatever. However, with a movie using over a dozen different VFX houses and budgets cutting back industry-wide, VFX studios are beginning to see the value in sharing their secrets with other studios.
The “plumbing” Tweak builds includes software for playing back vfx shots still in progress because consumer media players like QuickTime aren’t up to the job.
“All the companies had built their own inhouse playback systems,” he said. “But ILM isn’t going to land a new movie because they have an inhouse playback tool. So now it’s becoming clear to companies that it’s not worth the time and effort to maintain these legacy programs. They’d rather just buy them.”
via Vfx shops cooking up shared recipes – Entertainment News, Film News, Media – Variety.
