sigutis123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

please tell me how many hours you've been doing it

0maskot0 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

good job meite ... i like it

Oct0pu5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Way to go! impressive compositing :)

saajjj (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Grid a standard ways of doing it. In this case I could see the distortion in the raw footage. Boujou has a tool which allows to kill the distortion. Doing this lengthens the vfx pipeline. Say you're shooting NTSC, after fixing distortion the image will become a few pixels larger in width and height. All the CG stuff needs to be rendered at that 'awkward' resolution. Then again, the results when you comp the CG on the disort-free footage, and redistort the whole thing back to NTSC are awesome.

NewBoulayo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

very interesting... how can you determinate the lens distorsion? did you shot a footage to a rectangular grid for evaluate the intensity of distortion?

Javierrv30 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

thanx for the info, your help is appreciated!

saajjj (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Basically it's corrected to get a solid match move. Also, at the end when redistorting back to original, the CG stuff gets distorted too, which is how it should be :)All the passes other than the particle stuff was done in XSI.The particles were AE regular particles with some effects.@sebastc - the smoke is real

Javierrv30 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

hey! what's the purpose of doing a lens correction for the background plate? and were the diffuse/spec/reflection passes done on AE7or did you rendered them out from XSI? thanks.

treinton36 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

AMAZING !!

saajjj (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

AE7 for compositing.