{"id":1623,"date":"2014-06-10T01:59:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T06:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2014-06-10T01:59:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T06:59:53","slug":"establishing-crowd-shots-such-a-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2014\/06\/establishing-crowd-shots-such-a-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishing Crowd Shots… Such A Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Establishing shots are necessary at the start of a scene to tell the audience where they’re at. They sound simple enough, but I hate when this shot occurs in a crowded area. This requires a great deal of time (and resources) to adequately convey a populated location.<\/p>\n

This new short starts off in a store, which is supposed to be pretty busy. Audio can help with setting the tone, but fortunately I had enough models from previous projects to throw into the scene that created a satisfactory crowd scene.<\/p>\n

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Can you determine how many previous projects, excluding this one, are represented in this shot? Here’s a hint: it’s not three.<\/p>\n

Several of these models will be used as additional non-animated background characters to help keep the illusion of a crowded store. However, this initial establishing shot was the only one that needed to have all these characters in it – and that’s a good thing because my computer does not like loading very many models into one Lightwave scene file. I was forced to break it up into sub-scene files, which required that much more time to generate this shot. I guess that’s just another reminder I need a new computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Establishing shots are necessary at the start of a scene to tell the audience where they’re at. They sound simple enough, but I hate when this shot occurs in a crowded area. This requires a great deal of time (and resources) to adequately convey a populated location. This new short starts off in a store, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ultra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}