Featured Projects
From time to time I plan to put up projects that I found especially enjoyable. Sometimes it’s technical challenges, other times the process and work flow, hopefully always the artistry!
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SAW 5
The First Project I want to look at is the Saw 5 Bathroom project. The idea was to place type inside of a filthy bathroom and create interesting camera moves within the environment. We all felt that a hand held camera would be the best approach. I first experimented with some scripting and custom tools within maya, but was not happy with the rather generic results. So I started thinking about how one could use a real camera, hand held and then somehow extrapolate the motion from that.
The first step was shooting some footage that I could track. Using a Panasonic HVX200, I shot footage inside an office that approximated the camera move I wanted in CG.
Then I brought the footage into SynthEyes and tracked the camera.
I then exported the tracked camera into Maya, build the room geometry, textures and lighting. Using groups and constraints I was able to layer up the animation of the camera to get the exact move I was after.