More camera mapping fun

[djembeplay]

 

[Gord.T]

Looks nice. What is that smokey substance though? Is it a lens effect from the original camera shot? It sort of looks like the object should have a little more of that in front of the object.

Those cloths look pretty convincing.

 

[djembeplay]

Thanks man.

Ya, the smoke is actually steam coming off of the trees. It had rained and then the sun was evaporating massive amounts of moisture.

I added light rays too, so it is a bit accentuated.

I had the same thought about having some steam in front of the twisty sculpture. I could have put a slight cloud in front of it, but then I realized that it wouldn't actually be there in the real world because all the steam was set back (across the road) from where the sculpture is sitting.

Here's the original:

 

[djembeplay]

It was a good lesson in camera mapping because I wanted to slightly blur the added elements and isolate just the ground shadows for color correction. If I split all the layers in the image up, it didn't quite look as good when layered together as a flat render did. I learned that this is quite a normal happening for C4D or any 3D program for that matter. So, it's best to use multi-pass sparingly. I learned to make use of the blend layer so that I could seperate the minimal amount of elements it would take to accomplish what I wanted to do in post.

There is always more to learn.

 

[triplej96]

Nice job I like the cloths are very convincing!