


Without this, a camera is only a spectator in the scene, not a storyteller Arem Kim, 3dtotal Watch and read

It is critical to understand the story and emotion of the sequence before placing cameras into the scene. They can also work as freelancers on a project-by-project basis. Layout artists can work as full-time employees of major VFX companies or studios. This is so that the director and editors have options when ‘cutting’ the film together in post-production. On larger-scale projects, such as certain feature films, layout artists will produce several versions of virtual camera shots of a scene, as well as its composition. They communicate with the director to work out what virtual camera ‘language’ to use how they want the animation to be framed and look on screen. The work that layout artists do enables other VFX artists to have a basis for shot construction later in the VFX production pipeline. They keep a consistent scale of the elements within the frame. Layout artists consider a shot’s framing, composition, camera angle, camera path and movement, and the rough lighting of each key scene. To ‘block’ the characters, means to choreograph where the characters are positioned and where they will move to over the course of a shot. Layout artists determine the position of the virtual camera and ‘block’ the characters for computer generated image (CG) shots of a VFX sequence.
