It took me three days to get the high resolution Minotaur scene to work. I am now on day two of getting the high resolution beach walkers scene finished. The process is pretty straight forward. I keep the low resolution video on a layer in Callipeg and add high resolution changes on layers above that video. If I can live with the resolution of some elements I don’t changer them. In the case of the Minotaurs, I had to change all the line work which got very pixelated.
Callipeg has trouble playing back this hybrid scene with animated layers on top of video. The green screen video flickers off and on when I play back the animation. Thankfully despite the glitch, the Minotaur scene ultimately rendered correctly. I just have to live with the flickering nightmare and hope it renders correctly after several days of work.
In this scene I am revising all the heads and bodies and the limbs seem to be holding up without changes. I have revised the front row of zombies so far and need to finish the second row and background crowd. This is the last major scene that needs revisions. I might go through and add some more smoke effects and there are one or two scenes where I am considering animation but held off. The film just keeps evolving. With animation it is hard to know exactly when the project is finished.