It took three days to animate this scene. From this scene I will roll right onto a similar scene with DeathSantis overlooking children running from a napalm attack. After animating I was excited to export the scene into the final edit. Unfortunately the file size was so large that it would not export. This is the type of situation where hair gets pulled out.
Pam researched the issue and after some time found a work around that involved converting one file into another using a third party program. The problem was that the program deflated to a very high resolution 4K render. There was no way to convert the scene to the lower 1920 by 1080 version that I was using for every other shot.
Pam asked me to shuck open a bag of pistachios while she worked. It became a race to see if I could de-shell the nuts before she found a solution. I am insanely thankful she ultimately found a solution. I will be super careful with the next shots to be sure I don’t create another 4K behemoth of a scene.