- 3DEqualizer aids Anibrain to be an award winning VFX & creative studio
Globally recognized for its partnership with Framestore, Anibrain the VFX & Creative Studio (anibrain.com) was founded in 2006 and now is a proud brand associated with over 150 international blockbusters. Combining passion with craftsmanship it has bagged the 2018 State Award for Industrial Excellence in Magnetic Maharashtra Convergence. Recently Anibrain along with Framestore won the Best Visual Effect" Oscar in 2018 for "Blade Runner 2049".
"Doctor Strange" - Copyright 2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
"Doctor Strange" - Copyright 2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
3DEqualizer has been a constant buddy to our Tracking & Matchmove Team throughout these years. Our first experience with the software was very user friendly and comfortable. 3DEqualizer comes with an array of tools for tracking which are unrivaled in the industry. It is the most tried and tested software for all our tracking needs says Tracking & Matchmove Supervisor Devendra Naghate. Harshal Deshpande (Tracking & Matchmove Supervisor) highlights a special feature offered by 3DEqualizer: "Variety of distortion models and easy integration with the composting workflow makes it a go to option for us".
3DEqualizer offers an enormous flexibility by providing their licenses through a permanent as well as subscription model. It helps us to plan the cost effectiveness considering the business requirements and the projects under the pipeline. This helps us to have the combination of both models in the workplace for primary and secondary users to be equipped with permanent and subscription licenses. Also, the turnaround time to get the licenses on floor has reduced drastically as compared to the previous years, resulting in easy availability of the licenses immediately on our production floor. This is tremendously beneficial to the studios to mitigate the risk of infrastructure constrains at any point of time, especially when client deadlines are aggressive.
"Doctor Strange" - Copyright 2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
"Doctor Strange" - Copyright 2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
Doctor Strange is a sci-fi film based on comics and produced by Marvel Studios. In this show we were awarded with the London Sanctum fight sequence. Most of the shots were shot with rapidly moving cameras with a ton of rolling shutter and motion blur. This made the show incredibly interesting from a tracking perspective. Most of the shots from this sequence had environment extension and rotoanimation of Dr. Strange.
For the sequence where Dr. Strange was stabbed and was being operated in the operation theatre, the requirement was to have two Dr. Strange personas at the same time in the scene - one being operated and the other busy fighting the odds in the same room in the parallel universe. We had to make sure the camera remains smooth in the foreground regardless of erratic movement in camera.
"Doctor Strange" - Copyright 2016 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
Despite of all these constraints we were able to get a good camera solve because of 3DEqualizer's incredible and unique feature to lock down certain attributes and then it calculates the rest for you. This is what makes it a handy and ideal software in such situations. It worked very well with the on-set data like Lidar scans, photo- geometry, or reference images to create a custom common location for solving even the most erratic movements in the camera.