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"In Dire Need" - PSA & Breakdown
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13 Apr 2008Hey guys!
A few weeks ago I made a 30-second PSA for a national contest focused on disaster relief. Now, it looks like I'm one of only five finalists in the country! The grand prize winner gets $12,000 - and it depends entirely on the popular vote. I need as much help as I can get!!
I just put together a brief overview of the visual effects process involved in the creation of the short. I used matte paintings and camera projection in Blender to replace the environment in the shot at the end. It was pretty challenging, and took me over a week to finish!
Watch the overview in or on
Check out the rest of the PSA's at and be sure to vote for your favorite!!
Let me know what you think.
Thanks!
--Colin
Also, I've got a question for you advanced effectsers. One thing I wanted to do was to extend the shot a bit to pull back further, revealing more of the environment, but I didn't have time to experiment. How would you go about doing this - transitioning from the tracked camera move to a fully 3D scene? -
13 Apr 2008Amazing work Colin. Voted.
Best there for sure. I can't believe how much quality work you've pumped out since I last visited your site. Keep it up! -
mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts13 Apr 2008dude amazing, question though u used pf track what if you use a normal tracking thing from ae and manually do some editing to it, with color enhancement (amazing by the way), can i get similar result? i would also ask can we roto this? for the 3d part wouldn't normal 3d plane with images also kinda give the same feel?
amazing work man i am sure you guys gonna win good luck. -
13 Apr 2008"Also, I've got a question for you advanced effectsers. One thing I wanted to do was to extend the shot a bit to pull back further, revealing more of the environment, but I didn't have time to experiment. How would you go about doing this - transitioning from the tracked camera move to a fully 3D scene?"
maybe you could try animate the scaling of your layer in after, (or what ever you are using) with a bigger mate painting linked to it... could that work?
anyhow, great peice you have here! you're gonna be rich my friend!
how much time did you spend working on this? -
mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts13 Apr 2008rich if i understand correctly example you have the same shot, your real camera is moving away and further away then trans to a 3d scene, at this point the original composite which has real footage does it go blury cause of depth of field, if so i think you can achieve this by rendering the z-depth in max after the composite was done in max and then apply a camera to the hole thing in after effects with a dop effect and using the z-depth values. never tried it but thats the solution that came to my head
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or you could just take the real footage keep zooming out and as you said that scene will be huge so the more u zoom the more reveals of the house surroundings, and have them the 3d stuff stations in the AE 3d environment. (pf tracks perspective doesn't it?)
you could just take the scene with a camera keep pulling the camera in real life expanding the scene and just keep tracking something and saving the track data to null and then just have the 3d rendered layers parented to the null.
i don't get exactly what your going for maybe a bit more explanation (no expert just wanted to help) ^_^ -
mechis 520 posts13 Apr 2008This looks really nice... good job with the matchmoving and composite.
~Mechis -
13 Apr 2008Wow...you did an incredible job!
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14 Apr 2008color me impressed
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ptaverner 379 posts14 Apr 2008Outstanding job!
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14 Apr 2008Thanks so much guys!
mahmoudnahmad - yeah, to a certain extent the same thing would totally be doable in 2.5D, with simple image planes set in 3D space rather mapped geometry. Good suggestions.
Richard - Man, that's actually a great idea! It never occurred to me that a quick 2D trick like that might do the trick! I guess my challenge would be neutralizing the camera movement at the end, cause it doesn't come to a perfect stop and would still be shifting around within the attached matte painting, if you understand the problem. I spent probably about three weeks from start to finish on the PSA, from concept to completion. -
troubadour 207 posts14 Apr 2008this stuff is professional...
congrats and good luck -
mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts14 Apr 2008so 2.5d works but then why go all the way with pftrack and modeling simple geometry what kind of realism would they add, or would be the same and just wanted to show u know a trunk load of stuff, would love to get some insight on this stuff cause i am teaching my self everything related to post production and video editing THX A BUNCH
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14 Apr 2008Well, even with a 2.5D solution you would still need to do a fully 3D track. And a 2.5D composite it wouldn't look exactly the same. If you're looking closely at it,it would feel really flat in comparison. That kind of thing would work better for side-to-side dolly moves, where things are moving in a sort of planar way, but with a pull-back there's more to consider in terms of parallax...
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts14 Apr 2008thx for the info man but one more question although i know i am bombarding you, now you modeled some of the rubble but how is that composited what i mean is you got the 2d image you modeled the rubble but how did you texture it so it would look identically to the one in the image although its 3d, (how is the 3d placed exactly when they are in the position where they suppose to be)
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15 Apr 2008Awesome, awesome work colin!! I saw it on saturday when you posted, and i think i voted, but never got the confirmation email, so I'll try again.
You can definitely cheat a pullback by just scaling, but you are correct in that if there is a lot of parallax, the cheat begins to fail. But if you do it carefully, hide roto edges really good, and maybe break the scaling plate into a few different pieces with different anchor points, it can certainly work.
You did some really, really nice work on this thing! I did, however, see some floaty geometry on the roof of the building. It's minor, and certainly barely noticeable in this context, but just thought I'd point it out, cause, honestly, you're one of the best fx artists I've ever seen who is not already working at some studio, and I kinda want to be sure you can take your stuff that last 5%. I have no doubt you'll be working where ever you want after school.
Off to make sure my vote counted! -
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22 Apr 2008Thanks so much to those who voted!
They just announced the winner. Although we totally swiped the popular vote, we got second place, behind "Empty". But we still won $5,000!
So I'm happy.
Thanks again, guys!
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22 Apr 2008Wow, Colin! Awesome, congrats!! You definitely deserved first place, but that's still a heck of a prize!!
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Pierre 61 posts22 Apr 2008Just amazing Colin. Congratz!
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22 Apr 2008congratulations buddy! i bet you're really happy about this!
what are you gonna do with all that money? -
mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts22 Apr 2008CONGRATZ (:P go buy all the software used original now) yes you should have won first place, congratz again.
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23 Apr 2008wow congratulations mate! thats really great news! whatcha gonna do with the dough?
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