An attempt at matchmoving and compositing a CG element into a filmed shot. Used Boujou for tracking, Maya mental ray for rendering. Compositing was done in After Effects, although I’m also learning nodebased compositing (Nuke) and I’ll switch over to Nuke later.
The filmed shot is terrible, it has some rolling shutter artifacts which clearly give it away at the end, but it was the best I had for this test.
I used a z-depth and a motion vector pass for post-motion blur, I tried to add a slight lightwrap, but I’m not 100% satisfied with that yet. And I’m not completely satisfied with the backside of the car. Hence it’s a WIP 😉
Any feedback is appreciated, about lightning and setting up the CG element in Maya, and specially about compositing, since I’m just getting started with compositing. I would like to know whats mostly giving it away that it’s fake, and improve my composite.
:thanks:
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYC0tyqKQfM
Vimeo link: http://www.vimeo.com/7939693
I have been think about this for a while now and wanted to get your thoughts on this:
Would it be possible to build some kind of device that you can strap to the camera and that records the full 3D motion of the camera?
I know that devices like the iphone contain an accelerometer that can record at least the rotation of the device, although I think the data of such a recording is not accurate enough for our purpose (for a 4k picture I think you would, depending on the lens, need a accuracy of 0.005 degree). But are there accelerometer like devices that are more accurate? Also is there something that can record the movement to a accuracylevel that would be useful?
On the other hand I think a rough 3D track of the shot (by that I mean a path that is not spot on, say for some 1-5% off, created by an iphone app or something you strap to the camera) could be very useful information for the starting point of the full spot on 3D tracking of the shot.
What is everyone thought on this? If it would be possible it would be a great tool!
Anxious to hear from you all!
Greetings!
Kasper
This is my second animation with heavy use of Softimage’s ICE Particles (first one was this) . It’s a spot for a german advertising agency. (Werbenator – Die Agentur mit Biss; in english it means something like: Advernator – The Agency with Teeth)
This was a one man project with a time frame of 1 month.
The colors got kind of screwed by Youtube, but i hope you get the idea. 😉
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jspFScyEew
Cheers,
Marc
It is fastest global illumination render for Lightwave 3D. It is currently available as a plugin and as a standalone application.
Ubisoft has become the first company to develop a mainstream game “James Cameron’s AVATAR” using 3D technology.
My first choice:
Dell PowerEdge 6650 4 x Xeon 2.80 Ghz/16 GB DDR SDRAM 2x36GB SCSI RAID 2 *1000 LAN
My second choice:
IBM E-server Xseries 365 4 X procesoare Xeon 3000Mhz 8094Mb Ram, 109.2GB HDD, DVD Drive, FDD, NIC DualEthn, 4 x Num of CPU’s, 3 x O/B ethernet, SCSI Card, 3 x SCSI HD 36.4, 3 x USB Port, Rack, Black, W1
My third choice:
HP Proliant DL 580 G3 Xeon 4 X 3.0 Ghz/ 6GB DDR2 ECC/ 4 x 72 GB SCSI Raid/cd / Rack / Lan 10/1000
My fourth choice:
Hewlett Packard Workstation xw8400 – 2 X Xeon Dual Core 5160 – 3 GHz, SATA (Raid) RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 – 4 GB Ram, 250 Gb HDD, Combo( DVD&CD-RW) drive, FDD, 10/100/1000 ethernet, SoundOnBoard, 8 x USB Port, 2 X Placa video profesionala Nvidia Qudro nvs285
I know that these are primarily designed to work as a server!!
My question is which will better run (or run at all!) any Autodesk software such as FFF.
Can you advise me on one of these choices or something else. The price difference among the above models are negligible.
Thank you in advance.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A. during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
