Devastation and destruction – two boys walk through the decaying aftermath of a post viral apocalypse. In a world where being too close can turn you into a zombi, their day-to-day struggle to survive is captured in this one scene. Check this composite out.
Posts Tagged ‘Apple Shake’
I Love Sarah Jane – Post Viral Apocalypse
Posted in Compositing, tagged Apple Shake, Compositing, Greenscreen, Maya, Special Effects, VFX on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
iPod Car Commercial
Posted in Compositing, tagged Apple Shake, Compositing, Greenscreen, Maya, Special Effects, VFX on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apple iPods and iPhones play an important social role in our everyday lives, whether connecting us to our friends or to our favorite entertainment media. In this segment of a commercial spot, we see a lovely driver visualizing her music as she drives down a country road. Check out this composite.
Terrorist Explode North Atlantic Oil Rig
Posted in Compositing, tagged Apple Shake, Compositing, Greenscreen, Maya, Special Effects, VFX on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the remote North Sea Oil Rig F3 during a ragging northeastern storm, suspected terrorist detonate a high explosive bomb as the military helicopters and tugs look on helplessly. Or, so the story line goes. Oil Rig Explosion is a complex composite given the number of different scene elements that needed to be treated, composited, [...]
2008: A Space Oddity
Posted in Compositing, tagged Apple Shake, Cinema 4D, Compositing, VFX on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
2008: A Space Oddity Arthur C. Clarke has nothing to worry about as this intrepid ship explores our galaxy and beyond.
Sin City Dancers – Awesome Cinematic Style
Posted in Compositing, tagged Apple Shake, Compositing, Film, Greenscreen, Movies, VFX on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sin City Dancers is composited in the style of the movie Sin City. This 2005 feature film ushered in a period of cinematic style consisting of sleekly rendered characters with stark silhouettes, shadows, colored in black and white accented with a minimalist color scheme. This compositing technique represent one approach to creating this cinematic style.
Subway Woman Update
Posted in Compositing, Mattes, tagged Apple Shake, Compositing, Film, Greenscreen, Movies on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I updated the original methodology used to despill the Subway Woman scene. After evaluating for spill using a slice tool, I realized that there was too much green artifacts remaining. I replace the built-in despilling process used by Primatte with the Unspill Algorithm defined by Steve Wright. Check out the results…
Subway Woman
Posted in Compositing, tagged Apple Shake, Compositing, Film, Greenscreen, Movies on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes it is not enough to just compose the imagery of a scene. In many cases, a simple song is begging to be juxtaposed against the backdrop of what otherwise are animated and silent still images. When I heard “All Colours” by Bob Holroyd, I immediately saw this was the case with this composition piece. [...]
Magic Dust Writer
Posted in Compositing, tagged Apple Shake, Compositing, Film, Greenscreen, Movies on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Digital compositing is a great expressive process for integrating multiple elements, often independent and from different sources, to form a seamless integrated scene. Marco Paolini said, “At the end of the day, it is not what you did, but how it looks.” Well, he is half right. Looks are 90% of the shot, but the [...]




