Here's an example of some of the more complicated digital effects work I'm doing on this project.
This shot doesn't exist in the workprint (or Miramax version). It's possibly a Calvert invention. Either way it only appears in the "Princess" version of the film, in pan & scan.
For shots that are only in pan & scan, I had the option of either using them as pan & scan in my edit (easy) ...
Or doing a lot of work and creating moving backgrounds for them.
Knowing me, I did the latter.
An early version of the painting for this shot appears in the Princess WIP. I redrew it to match the final version, and animated it myself to add rain to it, and lightning, and match the general look of the shot.
Then I place the pan & scan version over it.
From Princess WIP:
Photoshop ...
http://orangecow.org/thief/warmachinedrawingphotoshop.jpg
Then I added rain. Keyframing is used frame by frame to roughly match the flashing lighting of the real shot.
Other shots:
This background was created for a shot of the Thief falling, which I only had in pan & scan. It was cobbled together from various screen grabs. It was keyframed to match the actual background as he falls, frame by frame.
http://orangecow.org/thief/thieffallingbg.jpg
Here's a big background for a major shot of the witch. This had to be keyframed to be the right brightness in each frame, and then it moves at the end, and that had to be matchmoved also.
http://orangecow.org/thief/witchbigbg.jpg
Another witch backdrop, which had to be matchmoved.
http://orangecow.org/thief/witchbg2.jpg