Assistant Director work profile - The Cuphead Show
Some samples of my work as Assistant Director
Reducing crew workload and bringing a department back within schedule and resources
Issue:
Complex lighting on the Devil, Henchman and other main characters was making the task completely unmanageable with the resources and schedule we had. Action: I proposed to Netflix we would come up with an alternative that was close to frame by frame drawing of all lighting and present it to them. I worked with the TD, Lighting and Rigging Supervisors to try and devise a methodology to automate more of the lighting process to a) remove lighting from the rig so as to make it manageable to animate character heavy scenes and b) to remove as much mundane work from the lighting artists task list. Result: The Lighting Supervisor developed a node based plug in system that worked with elements added to the rig enabling lighting artists to automate most of the lighting across the character and then focussing on clean up at joints and on frames that the automation failed. Netflix were happy to sign off on the end result which looked very close to their frame by frame expectation. |