When You Need A Little More Coverage

Sometimes when you’re editing, even though they obviously did their best on set with the time they had, well… sometimes there isn’t enough coverage and your left looking for solutions to fix a unnatural looking cut. One such situation arose with cutting the upcoming short film ‘Like a Rookie’, premiering on April 14th, 2024. Faced with the need for another coverage shot we quickly devised a plan. A digital close up of a cigar would be introduced, solving our editing issue and enriching the narrative with an undercurrent of tension and foreboding.

With instant access to the set available, it being parked conveniently on our hard drive, we were loaded up and working within minutes. A Quixel Megascans cigar asset was used and modified to have an emissive glowing tip. In Blender, we ran a smoke simulation and created the stream of smoke rising from the burning cigar. Then the elements were assembled in Unreal Engine including digital background characters and the live action footage of the singer. The digital camera was set with a near focus and a shallow depth of field for a classic cinematic look. Finally the image was colour corrected to match the style of the rest of the film. All said and done in under an hour.

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Our mission is to democratise access to high-end virtual production technologies, making it easier for filmmakers to tell new and exciting stories. By eliminating the traditional barriers of cost and complexity, we are opening up a world of possibilities.

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