Deadline kung fu

“The biggest mistake of the rush of the deadline is to think it’s gonna end soon.”

I had to work on a clip by BI2. I did this shot.

In the shortest possible time, it was necessary to build a 3D city to the horizon and make a shot of the night. “ In the shortest possible…” — You may think it’s a line from task description, because the Project already had a vat of boiling water, even assemble a city of 3D assets of time no. Code Red.
While I was brainwashing about building a 3D city, a fellow artist made a draft of the frame with the church.

And we have a 3D camera for a shot. What if we “revive” the church so:

Sometimes you walk down the street, turn the corner, and there’s a bag of gold. Nice find? Yeah, but unexpected. And meeting the unexpected means that the picture of the world in your head is at odds with reality, otherwise, where would the surprises come from?
A man usually changes his behavior if he encounters a burglar around the corner, that is, an unpleasant lack of life and any sudden pleasures are chalked up to his luck and He goes on the same way, and surprises continue to appear and from pleasant grows up to unpleasant, Until the picture of the world in my head coincides with the reality.
A 3D model of the church is ready for an hour. Well, we need 3D assets now?

We’ve done the city with some bold swabs and we’ve mapped it out of 3D. Let’s add variety to the architecture, light the lights and let “Night” into the city.

So R’n’D of the city is ready, you can compose it.
- How, not to compose it, and send it to color-correction?
- Ah, yes… deadline.
A joke, of course. But seriously speaking, when there’s not enough time from R’n’D to make a beautiful picture, and the customer is lavishly given corrections, it is doubtful if you can even compose. This is where the real deadline kung fu begins, and the main trick is to tell a colleague that he’s doing a good job.
The rush of the deadline exacerbates hunger not only for days, hours, minutes but also for warm words of support.
Please praise each other — this is the real deadline kung fu.