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plejboy
02-11-2009, 09:38 PM
http://www.arvidniklasson.com/images/snowboard.png

http://www.vimeo.com/3176867

Made a VFX shot for Quicksilver/Actionhorse's snowboardmovie "Ponytale".
Just for fun on my spare time but I thought I would share it non the less.

This is the "making of" the shot.

The full movie can be seen for free at:
http://www.actionhorsefilms.com/ponytale/

Used Maya, Max, After Effects, Syntheyes, Photoshop.

Hope you like it.
nickmarshallvfx
02-11-2009, 10:42 PM
Haha, nice fun effect pulled off really well. If i hadnt seen the breakdown i wouldnt have instantly thought 'its visual effects!'
A good range of techniques all coming together to a really nice finish, congrats! :)

Nick
kgaulin
02-11-2009, 11:41 PM
That was great man...nice job!!!

plus, that is my home mountain where I snowboard :thumbsup:
vfx
02-11-2009, 11:43 PM
great job very impressed! Nice tracking, roto and camera projection work. :)
vfxnerd
02-12-2009, 07:59 AM
Lol, I agree with all the comments above. You pulled off this shot pretty well. I like!
plejboy
02-12-2009, 12:44 PM
Cheers buddies!
Some of the real tricks they do in this movie are even more crazy.
Thanks again.
visionmaster2
02-12-2009, 03:17 PM
that's great, and very well done !


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ulikilian
02-12-2009, 08:25 PM
LOOOL - Very very cool man!
I love it! Always wanted to do something like that. You've inspired me again!
Thanks!
Uli
wreath
02-13-2009, 08:08 AM
That was awesome! so natural :thumbsup:
ajfrank
02-15-2009, 12:18 AM
Hey nice job man! I thought it was pretty good. I'm an animator so I dont have that VFX eye like i do for animation so i cant critique it good, but i thought it came out pretty seamless.

Good Job!
dono
02-15-2009, 12:32 AM
Excellent job ! Very fun :) And you can see it one more time, it is good also :)

Keep it up good work !
ZacD
02-15-2009, 12:36 AM
the pants were the most obvious cg element,
Whitmire
02-17-2009, 12:35 AM
yeah that was pretty sick:buttrock:
KSteineman
02-17-2009, 11:02 PM
Great work man! It was my first time seeing this, and I thought it was real, but then after you did the breakdowns my heart beat came back :P cool stuff!
plejboy
02-19-2009, 10:05 AM
Cheers guys!
One thing to mention is that this whole thing was created without any preparation. Had no reference for the boarder or tracker markers or anything like that. It was just a fun thing to do in my spare time sort of thing. And nowadays spare time is hard to come by :)

Thanks again.
p0rcupine
04-21-2009, 08:39 AM
I know it's been a while since last post, but this is very cool!
I wish I could snowboard like he does :)
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