Bumper from Rodrigo on Vimeo.Sorry, but as you might know, after the movie is released still take a while until I can receive some shots from the Studio. Then I can add to my reel.While I’m still awaiting for the shots that I’ve worked on, I got this promotional image at the internet and I added just a few movements just to give it more life. The movie will be released in March 2009. |
| Working on the Laundry Warrior VFXsDespite all the hard work and tight deadline, Laundry Warrior project showed me that everything is possible to achieve in Film production. It’s just a matter of patience, technique, faith and of course, money. It is impressive how people can get together to work so much for the same cause.Comping
I doubt that I can work in another project that the chroma key will be darker and grainier than this one. Huge amount of roto, filters and special techniques to key were required. When we thought we had a unique recipe to key suddenly we got ourselves reading heaps of theory about chroma and all compers changing emails with shake scripts pasted. What I found very useful to help on key was to use the 3D Camera Solve data from Bojou to help to lock all my rotos to the plate. It worked sweet. Color Matching stills are easy. Imagine when your camera moves and the whole set changes lighting. :O Again, using roto to limit some areas and the 3d solve tracking information helped a lot achieving a good result. Comping elements were the fun part. Smoke, muzzle flashes, blood and of course, a lot of patches. Sometimes I had to fix character’s face using warp deformer, other times I had to remove rigs inside set, cables… Ahhh! Massive cables everywhere! People that shouldn’t be there, swords that should be hitting other spots… Movie magic! Thereafter we could see something creating shape. Besides that, It was great to help the 3D team developing Maya shaders for a specific shot. Understanding in depth how RGB channels and color depth work really helped us out to optimize the render setup. Scripting I’ve done some cool Linux scripts to speed up some tasks on terminal to generate some proxies locally, load images to flipbook faster without having to type long commands. Just type the number of the shot and choose the quality that you want to load and it was in your screen. A good script to copy the files from an specified shot from server to work locally was handy as well. I’m excited to see the final result on the big screen. |
