Hasta La Motion!

I’m having a problem. I have 1.5 days left to deliver the shots. From the 10 shots I had to track there is 1 shot I can’t get solved. I hope you guys can help me out with this!

I have to put a word left from the "50" and right from it. I’ve tried to tracking it as a Tripod shot. And tried to do it as a normal shot. I have tracked as much detail on the boards and tracked the trees in the background as far trackers.

Strange enough the far trackers appear in front of the normal trackers. Like it is inverted. I will place a thumbnail here and post the shot here.

Thanks!
Maarten

Its looking pretty good, what do you guys think? Weird Disney is behind it though, where they behind the original?

The films are listed below in alphabetical order:

* “Angels & Demons”
* “Avatar”
* “Coraline”
* “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”
* “District 9”
* “G-Force”
* “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”
* “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
* “Sherlock Holmes”
* “Star Trek”
* “Terminator Salvation”
* “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
* “2012”
* “Watchmen”
* “Where the Wild Things Are”

In early January, the members of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee, who selected the semifinalists, will narrow the list to seven.

All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 15-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films on Thursday, January 21. Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate three films for final Oscar consideration.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

For example, Once a film is complete ( editing,vfx added etc..)
It now needs to be color corrected ( Adjust contrast, make blue eyes bluer, change color of a car, etc)

So my questions are:
1, How many colorists are assigned to the film?

2. Do they break it up into scenes ? (John does the rain scenes, Bob does the night scene, etc)?

3.How much time does it take to for the colorists to complete any given film. Or should I say, How much time does a Big Studio want you to take to finish your scenes?

The reason for my curiosity is because I have been working on a 45 minute
Indy film for 9 months. (don’t laugh)

My job is to do everything except editing. CG planes added, sky replacements, wire & track removals, day 4 night conversions, 3D tracking, 2D tracking, Stabilizing, color correction, and the list goes on… etc…..etc…

So I find myself asking….is this normal? Am I slow as Sh_t?

My last Day 4 night conversion (which was 8 clips) took 6 weeks!

Keep in mind, they broke every rule. Direct sun on the talent, camera pointed at blown out sky, grainy,etc..

So, I would love to hear from the pros,

Thanks,
Lou