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AlanMorlock t1_iy3re0h wrote

Reply to comment by HugoRBMarques in Dune IMAX by kjoro

The Imax versions isn't the wider image. What you describe is indeed the more typical approach but wasn't the approach they used in several shots in Dune. I'll try to find some dirrct comparison and vfx reels but in a presentation I attended with thr layout supervisor, and in other reels I've seen, they explained how with the way certain shots were framed in IMAx, there wasn't a good way to crop it down and so they did indeed commit resources to creating more imagery to create the less square aspect ratio versions.

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HugoRBMarques t1_iy3s2mt wrote

Please do. I'm interested to hear more. Also, did you work in the production of this film, or in something related to it in any way?

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AlanMorlock t1_iy4gtm1 wrote

No. I attended an animation conference at Webster University last Spring. One of the the presenters was Kristin Pratt, formerly of DNEG who served as the layout supervisor on Dune.

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HugoRBMarques t1_iy4l140 wrote

DNEG also appears as a logo on the video I posted. Interesting.

But do you work or are studying filmmaking or animation?

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AlanMorlock t1_iy4igb1 wrote

https://youtu.be/UARrOsNPviA in this video, around the 47 minute mark they cover their "mega frame" techninique of rendering more of the image to the sides to create the non imax versions of the shot when Villeneuvr wasn't haply with the traditional cropping approach.

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