Hi All,

please bear with me for this question.  I have spent a long time now trying to learn how to produce work to a high standard but am stuck.  I would like to know how to produce a short similar to the quality of a blockbuster film!  I have used combustion asnd shake and am practising intergrating footage, but I am stuck on this, how exactly is that incredible look achieved, how does everything move together so perfectly., I appreciate this is the work of a genius compositor with years of experience, but why doesn’t a character rendered and composited, look the same as the amazing one I saw on the last blockbuster film I just watched?  I understand bsaics of how to grade footage, how to colour match footage, lightt wrapping etc.  But why does the footage I see on a film look so much better (generally), what is that definative element that really makes it amazing!  Is it the contrasting? or is it the colour balaance of each layer and elemt being tweaked? or even is it footage being rendering at double the resolution and then downsized in the composition stage, is this even done at all? please please help.

If anyone that has worked on a feature film could reply, with some answer, and I am sure it would not just be me as a learner that would benefit, ideally with a typical production workflow.  I would also be interested in seeing how differnet companies do things differenntly.  I am asrry to ask such an all encompassing question, but short of working in a production house on a project, I really cannot see how to find out what I would like to learn.

Many thanks,

Regards,

Al
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