German facility invests in Imagineer's monet

Imagineer Systems, the UK-based developer of the innovative mokey and monet visual effects tools, has announced that leading German postproduction facility PICTORION das werk GmbH is the latest European customer to purchase a monet software licence.
“It will be used for many projects and we have put it to work to immediately on a feature film,” said das werk's Jan Kruse. “On that we had a lot of complicated tracking shots to finish, which would have been impossible without monet.”
Monet is a complete end-to-end solution for replacing elements in film and video, offering artists precision, lens distortion-aware 2D motion tracking using the industry’s only planar tracker. Featuring a host of image processing tools that ensure properties of the source material can be easily applied to the new element, monet allows artists to perform complex tasks in a fraction of the time it would take with traditional high-end compositing packages.
Kruse says that monet helps solve problems in a few hours that were a compositor’s number one nightmare beforehand, especially objects moving out of frame when applying four-point tracks. This has great benefits all the way through the production pipeline.
“Monet enables us to just say ‘yes’ on set more often,” he added. “If you are supervising and you know that budgets are tight, you usually avoid any risky moving shots and order that the camera be locked off. Now, however, we are happy to offer the DoP a bit more freedom and do the tracking later with monet.”
(GB)