Hasta La Motion!

I’m setting up a shot where the actor is being set on fire. The first shot is locked off and starts at his feet so that’s pretty straight forward but later he will be moving around and then walking through a camera move.

It’s most likely going to be tracked in pftrack or syntheyes with the flames being creating in maya and some real flames comped in.

My question is the setup of the tracking markers on the actor.

Where should they be on this body?
should i have a certain amount? color ect
Any advice on camera setup? Its being filmed on a 7D, some of the shots will be over cranked to 60fps.

Any thing any1 can tell me about making sure i can get enough information from the footage would be a great help. I need to make sure as he moves the flames go with his momentum.

A good example would be the final scene in Crank 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9euf…eature=related

many thanks

Dave

Im supervising a VFX shoot next month , and we are shooting a blade runner type sci fi on a RED one .

Now we are using the aid of a Volumetric hazer machine to soften the image
and create shafts of light .

an example can be seen here .

http://vimeo.com/5387135

We are having a full cgi Character ala district 9 in the short .

Now my worry is compositing a character into the shot then blending the volumetric haze of the scene with the character … shafts of light hitting parts of the alien and the over all softness that the haze lends to the cinematography .

Sadly we don’t have time for tests .

And i need to tell the dop soon wether we can use the haze machine or not .

If you have any compositing suggestions or workflow ideas , i would greatly appreciate them

Thank you

Justin .

Basically we’re planning a shoot which involves the subject/s wearing high vis jackets in a professional green screen studio. We’re wondering if orange may work better than yellow? Or are both going to be a nightmare?

If anyone has any advice at all, that’d be awesome!

Thanks in advance.

i have to supervise the shooting and make the all animation…
what are the key things that i should do on set?(I’ve never supervised a shot EVER)
my client said that he doesn’t wanna the camera to move, so i guess i don’t need any tracking, except for hands and thing that will interact with the actor…
so i need at least some info to have a good camera match

The list of the things I think I need are basically those:

1-Shot lens grid

2-Camera info:
fstop
lens
shot duration
fps
shutter
filter

3-set info
distance to actor
actor height
light positions

so far that’s all…

is there anything that i should add , on my "on set to do list"??
Thanks

I recently did a new episode of Protocol called LAQUARIeM. This episode was build on using green screen and sky replacement tricks in After Effects, simply to give it a shot and see how it all works. We did a behind the scenes to it, where you can see bit of the workflow.

Hit me up with any questions etc.

Enjoy!

LAQUARIeM

Behind the Scenes