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Simulating reflections on fighter pilot helmet visor.
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“I’m a little unclear as to how you intend to see your pilot’s face through the visor. It looks pretty much black in these photos. Unless you’re planning on doing very close shots of her face without the visor down and just putting the reflection over these.
”No no no… The “pilot” will not have the visor covering her face *all* the time, but only in some shots. At one moment she will lify her visor and perhaps (although the story doesn’t quite justify that) will put it back on.
I’m not very clear about what you guys mean through CC sphere. I understand what you *generally* mean but that CC it’s a little confusing.
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CC is the shorthand for Cyclore Effects plug-ins that come free with AE 6.5
If you haven’t installed them yet, they are in a seperate folder on your AE 6.5 disc.
Chris Smith
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CC is the shorthand for Cyclore Effects plug-ins that come free with AE 6.5
Ok. I’m blind. Or plain stupid. 😀
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We are doing this in our latest IMAX movie. To do it correctly, you need to have a built cockpit and accurate lighting for your scene. Then you motion track your pilot’s head, and create a 3D model of the helmet with a surface for your reflection. Finally you raytrace your helmet to rt the surroundings for your reflection pass. We have 4 specular, 2 reflections, 2 smudge passes. I know other productions that have 27 passes total doing this, but ack, that’s too much;)
We are using a wonderful plug-in for AE called GrangerFX. With this plugin, I can do a raytrace render which acts as a look-up table for the reflection. Then I can replace a global reflection file anytime in AE, and it raytraces instantly. GrangerFX comes with the current versions of Electric Image.
Barry Berman
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What would happen in you prepared your images in advance of the shoot, and then used a video projector to project them onto your actor / helmet ..?
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