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Adam Berg Commercial
Hello everybody,
this commercial by Adam Berg has freezed me during the whole lenght of ithttps://beta.stinkdigital.tv/work/view/selected/carousel-(directors-cut)
What do you think its the main trick of this clip? The most interesting question ist how they freezed the frames although they turn the camera around teh scene and change the perspective.
Would be nice to read some minds.
Thanks in advance
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4 Replies
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Well, I’m blown away by it – it’s amazing. The only thing that I can think of is that it’s ALL done in 3D (though the people look pretty real). I can’t imagine the work that went into it tho….
kurt murphy
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My guess and it’s only a guess is that they’ve used the same technique that is used in ‘Heroes’. That show has developed poseable metal rigs which can support actors in unusual/impossible positions then they’ll have had to run a 3D tracker program like Syntheyes in order to add all of the visual effects like explosions, glass and fire.
Very, very clever and incredibly labour intensive.
[to update my own post] The microsite for the campaign features a making of – https://www.philips.co.uk/cinema
Graham
http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
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Well Graham, thanks for your post. I am going to make some trial shots and check Syntheyes out .
I will see how many hours, days, weeks or months I will spend on trying to realize a short sequence 😛DP
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I have done effects like this before, its far simpler than it first appears.
The people are just standing still as the camera tracks through the scene with door ways used as wipes, the explosions and fire are created in post as well as some of the broken glass (put in using a 3d motion tracker). (that’s part of the reason the robber is wearing the clown mask… so you can have lots of different guys as the same character).
Everything from the money hanging on wires to the cops to the men falling (also on wires) are actually just there sanding really still.
You spray everything with starch and spray-on adhesive and there you go.
Very impressive and as usual the most impressive things are the most simple… remember bullet time in the matrix and from that rolling stones video and thinking it was amazing… its just slow motion… or stills with an interstitial morph.
Anyway, hope that helps a little… if you shoot anything I’d love to see it, see how you worked with the idea.
All the best
Tim
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