How to achieve this effect?

[Simon Carlson-thies]

I didn’t see it but I would guess it was something like this:

It probably was 3D tiger from the inside that was tracked onto the video footage and they may have gone as far as to roto out the orignal tiger after matching the motion and placing a clean plate to fill in and comping in the insides of the tiger.

Simon Carlson-Thies,
Digital Light Graphics And Animation

[Tony Bartolucci]

makes sense, I’m gong to see if I can find a clip and post a link.

I’m hoping that someone who has seen what I’m talking about will be able to add some insight.

[Justin Productions]

Maybe it was all done in 3D. You’d be stuned how 3D can be realistic today. I’ve watched a film in IMAX not a long time ago, a films about animals in the jungle, and if I haven’t knew it was all made in 3D, never I would of guessed.

So…maybe, maybe not 😉

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

[Tony Bartolucci]

I’m in the process of getting a clip now, but I probably wont be able to post it until tomorrow….

That being said I will probably create a new thread and post the link this time, because I fear that this thread will be lost waiting till tomorrow…

[Andrei Firtich]

Well it all depends on the shot, if the camera was static it could have been possibly done in AE, most likely it was done in 3d app and then composited in AE. As for as the whole thing being a full 3d render, I don’t think people realize how much effort and rendering time it takes to make photorealistic full scene render…it is a lot simpler to make a small render and then composite it to video or AE/Combustion scene. As far as using 3d tracking in my experience it is royal pain in the butt, ofcourse I have only used Synth Eyes 3d, maybe Benjouir makes it faster/easier.
Just my 2 cents

[Tony Bartolucci]

OK I have four clips of some of the parts that I thought were pretty cool. Any insight would be great…

http://www.silverscreencreations.com/images/test2.avi

http://www.silverscreencreations.com/images/test3.avi

http://www.silverscreencreations.com/images/test4.avi

http://www.silverscreencreations.com/images/test5.avi

[Shawn Rossi]

After viewing the example I can say it was a mixture of 3D and 2D overlays to achieve that effect. I can see evidence of texture stretching in some of the three-quarter cheetah shots with the muscles, which would indicate 3D. There are other things that lead me to believe this was a 2D/3D combo.

You would start with a clean plate of the video footage and overlay 3D and/or 2D over top. It’s not hard to rotoscope the 3D elements over the footage in many 3D apps. It’s just time consuming. One of the best mid-range priced tracking solutions is Boujou Bullet (https://www.2d3.com/html/products/boujoubullet_overview.html)

I worked with this workflow on a Ford spot that needed tracking of 3D elements seamlessly. Footage > Boujou Bullet > Softimage|XSI > Rendered Plates/Mattes/Frames > After Effects over Footage > Final Output.

Cheers!
|rossimo|

[Criis Daw]

i beleive its done with an xray lens fitted to the camera….
you can get them these days