BURNOUT
THE MAIN GOAL
BRING A PAST PROJECT INTO THE REAL WORLD
THE CHALLENGE
Use Cinema 4D and Nuke to bring a 3D model into the real world.
CHOSEN PROJECT
My midnight downtown driving project seemed perfect to be brought into a photorealistic environment. The expressive movement of the car presented a solid animation opportunity, and the 2D elements gave me a balance between realism and abstraction to experiment with.
COMPOSITING PROCESS
FINAL PRODUCT
TAKEAWAYS
This project taught me how to endure a classic compositing shit storm.
Absolutely no software could track this shot. After C4D failed, Nuke offered a bit of help but ultimately proved to be inadequate. I took what I could from Nuke and manually scaled up my model in C4D as it approached the camera, faking a perspective that my software couldn't catch. With some stylized smoke to obscure the contact point, this shot got by without perfect one-to-one camera tracking.
In the end, sometimes the answer to a compositing roadblock is to find the most clever way to hide imperfections, hopefully a way in which the viewer will only read as intentional.