Started YET another shot… all my work is still in RnD phase… dont have any shots done yet.
But first shot of the UFOs on earth, will be New York. Figured a statue of liberty shot would say “New York” enough. Plus, much easier than making a UFO reflect in thousands of windows.
First and last frame of the shot.
Awesome progress so far! Will you/do you have the ocean reflecting off the bottom of the ship? (and a note on that – I’ve never seen Taken before, so I just associated it with a giant hubcap until I went for a second look at Page 1 :D)
Really looking forward to seeing how yours turns out.
Yeah the ocean is in the reflection already. Gotta love Google Earth, took a nice 2k snap shot of Liberty Island… thats whats reflecting in the ship. First half of the motion, you see lots of grass/brick reflecting, and then passes over water, and reflections go more blue.
wow, that’s not a whole lot of time. hahaha.
Either way, I’ll post my WIP edit anyways at the end.
Every time I hear Journey’s “Wheel in the Sky” on the radio I think of this thread :buttrock:A lot can happen in a week, man!
About 8 more weeks and 3 more people?
Is that doable?.. hahaha… Naw, what I got so far will do, not my best work, but not my worst.
So been kinda busy at work. Only have stills to show at the moment, my machine at work and at home wont render these out of nuke (Bad Allocation error… RAM?), maybe i gotta sneak them on the farm at work late at night.
Shot of Paris lighting up. Tried to frame it so i wouldn’t have to do too much on the shot. Running out of time, using comp tricks, left and right. Might add a flock of birds in the FG. and then a dust/sound wave hits the cam. But the blast is pretty far in the distance.
my second destruction shot… of New York… 2 frames here, sorta first and almost last of the shot. Big flash, and then the city is burried in cloud of dust (Wasnt really going for atomic bomb destruction, maybe it just vaporized organic material like War of the Worlds) But I think it works with the buildings poking out the tops.
And the last shot, a quick pull out from like, high orbit, to almost a full shot of the earth. With pops of light all over the place, showing all the major cities being attacked. And I’m over powering the lights on the surface, so you can see them shut down when the bombs go off.
Most of my shots are at like 75%. May not get to complete any of them.
If I do “Tornado”… for sure it will be one shot… maybe 2.
I most certainly do hope you’ll finish this! From the frames you showed us it is looking very good!
Incredible work on this one. I really hope you get it finished. Even if you don’t manage to get all the shots completed, I would sure love to see what you can get done.
Thanks guys, been throwing another comp togther, of Big Ben in London… all foggy and creepy… I’ll try and post it tonight.
Edit also looking pretty solid thus far, just need to finish about 3 more shots. I’m hoping its a slow work week.
I’m using Maya2008… Mental Ray, basic stuff. And then comping all in Nuke, and the earth shots were done with Nukes 3d scanline renderer, all in Nuke.
One last shot of thier “arrival”… Got New York so far, Tokyo, and now I’m doing London.
I’ll be rendering the rest of the day/evening. Maybe a .mov of it by late tonight/tomorrow morning.
Wow, that’s coming up quick…
I might have to just cut and run with that i got… maybe Sunday i can put a few hours into it.
