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Studio Daily have an excellent article about Pierre Michel’s process for creating the opening trailer for a French film festival, Polar dans la ville.

The whole 40 second sequence took three weeks to complete, and was created mostly in After Effects.  What’s most interesting is the approach he took to dealing with high resolution images in a short timeframe:

But still time was an issue, especially when it came to producing 2K images. “Because I work as a digital artist on films everyday I knew it would be very difficult to deliver the film on time if I worked at 1920×1080 because every second of the film was going to be VFX images,” Michel explains. “So I decided, after making some tests, to work in 1280×720 pixels and then resize all the film at the good resolution (with some sharping and graining process) and it worked pretty well. At the end nobody can tell if it is truly 1080p images or 720p streched…It just works. You can see the result on those 2k images. The second reason why I choose this format was to be able to see all the images in my 4/3 computer screen without zooming/dezooming! Everything is good to save time.