Talk:Stock footage

Rather than use Armada Prime... how about a two-screen-shot image from the fan-subs of Cybertron, the ones that show the time-codes. Start with a shot from the very beginning of the Prime/Wing-Saber combo, and one at the end, showing how goddamn LONG that sequence goes on. --M Sipher 17:53, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Beast Wars example

The article states that the stock transformations in BW were re-rendered every time. Is that for sure? They were at least often re-rendered, I think, but I don't know what Mainframe's production pipeline looked like. Often in CG animation, elements of the final picture will be rendered seperately and then composited together -- they don't render the entire scene (characters, background, sky, props, etc.) as one big thing. I don't know if Mainframe operates/operated that way, but I would guess that they do. So, they could have certainly taken a render of a character's transformation and composited that same shot into a few different background shots, as long as they were from the same angle and under the same lighting conditions. This would save even more time than the stock animation itself. I don't know if footage of a new background with an old character render would count as "stock footage" or not, but I'm inclined to say it does. In the old He-Man series they might have laid that same "He-Man runs at the camera" animation on top of different backdrops, but... that's still stock footage to me. --Steve-o 20:54, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Beast Wars had pre-animated cycles of all sorts of things, whether it be walking, running, firing weapons, or Transforming, but I don't think any of it was ever from the same camera angle. Pixar certainly renders things on different layers, but their elements were/are waaaaaay more complicated than what Mainframe was dealing with. I'd imagine it'd be a huge waste of time at that comparatively low level of complexity. --ItsWalky 21:01, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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I've been wondering this for a while (after reading a bit on this wiki), but is there some sort of mentality against stock footage? It seems it's treated as a bad thing around here.--BlackStarscream 02:24, 18 June 2012 (EDT)