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Nydendarin
03-14-2007, 09:16 PM
http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/218829/218829_1173906997_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/218829/218829_1173906997_large.jpg)

Title: Floating Castle
Name: Nicholas Bartone
Country: United States
Software: Maya, mental ray, Photoshop, Shake

This is a still from an animated 2.5D matte projection painting completed originally for a class exercise. The castle was modeled in Maya based off of Bodiam castle in East Sussex,
England.The castle is lit with a HDR I shot on location along with the plate at a small pond near Fort Stewart in Savannah, Ga. The original photograph was cleaned up a bit, cropped, and cut into layers (foreground, water, trees, sky) for use in this matte. The castle was rendered with Mental Ray's IBL and furthermore all the separate render layers were composited together in shake.

For the animated version of this, in Maya, I used camera projections on some basic geometry I modeled of the environment so that I could add in a camera-move.

Here are the layer breakdowns:
Original Photograph:
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/oriplate.jpg

On-location HDR
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/hdr_file.jpg

Diffuse
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/diffuse.jpg

Color Correct pass 1
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/colorcorrect1.jpg

Occlusion
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/occlusion.jpg

Desaturation
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/hsv.jpg

Depth Blur
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/blur.jpg

Clamp + Compress shadows+highlights
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/clamp_compress.jpg

Dirt and Grime (hand-painted and tracked on camera pass)
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/hand_paintdirty.jpg

Reflection
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/reflection.jpg

Light Bloom
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/bloom.jpg

Shadow
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/shadow.jpg

Final Composite
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~nbarto21/VFX/castle/final.jpg

Cheers!
ipdesigner
03-15-2007, 07:12 AM
*You work a lot on this image, i could say that you did a GREAT Job!! it is paid-off!:thumbsup:
lightwell
03-15-2007, 09:28 AM
Really impressive lighting and composite!

Not sure about the perspective match though, it looks like we are too close with too wide an angle. The two side walls look to be converging a bit too sharply. Maybe it looks correct in the animation...it would be good to see that, is it somewhere else on the forum?

JM
Nydendarin
03-15-2007, 02:01 PM
Really impressive lighting and composite!

Not sure about the perspective match though, it looks like we are too close with too wide an angle. The two side walls look to be converging a bit too sharply. Maybe it looks correct in the animation...it would be good to see that, is it somewhere else on the forum?

JM
Thanks for the comments so far guys!

Yeah, the perspective was really, really tricky on this one. Firstly because my plate was comprised of a panoramic photograph (multiple shots, meaning multiple vanishing points which basically just blew up any hopes of getting a perfect solution based on focal length to begin with), and also because that images was then cropped inwards where there's less lens distortion which made it even goofier, especially since it was shot with wide-angle. But I just basically fuged around with it till I felt it sat about right.

The camera move in the animated version is still partially a WIP (it's a finished product for the purposes of my exercise, but I'll be revisiting it later on), you can find that here.

Animated Version (http://studentpages.scad.edu/%7Enbarto21/VFX/Nick_Bartone.mov)
Video is ~23MB Quicktime .mov (H.264 codec)

cheers!
lightwell
03-15-2007, 03:20 PM
It doesn't move much, but whats there is impressive.

Was the professor pleased/impressed?
Nydendarin
03-15-2007, 03:37 PM
I believe so, I was pretty exhausted and half brain-dead during the critique (personally do not ever reccomend 4 all nighters back to back), but what I got from her was mostly all positive remarks.
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