Pyrotechnic accident caught on DVX!!!

scharky

scharky

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I got hired last week to shoot an Opera. It was a pretty standard shoot, when about an hour into the performance one of the pyrotechnics erupted prematurely. This was a pretty horrific event, so viewer be warned. The actor closest to the explosion is still in the hospitol with some pretty bad burns while the other one was released with a broken leg and some bruised ribs. I wouln't normally post something like this, but no one was killed, and it is a pretty spectacular site. I slowled down the explosion a little bit, it's pretty amazing.
By the way, the blue cast seems to be from the h264 encoding. I don't know why that codec always changes my contrast and colors :(

http://www.stefweb.net/Aato.mov
 
Yeah, I can't imagine what the heck that kinda pyrotechnic would be doing in an opera such as that. It sounded way too horriffic too, but I hate to question it.

The only reason it doesn't seem real is because while the explosion is going everything is lit up, but as it goes down it fades to black with some explosion still left. Seems like you just weren't quite sure how to make things look for the aftermath. Looked nice though, I felt bad for a while...

EDIT: I don't think I emphasized enough on how good it actually was! You did fool me for a while there and it did look very professional. Great job!
 
Looks like it was faked. Motion blur from camera shake? Double layerd explosion, outter one scaled and blurred? Even feathering on the masks? heh.

Fire element is definately a small pyro comp'd in. Look at the flames in the very end.

And the audio of the explosion is off a little. It doesn't match the rest.

Was that really shot with a DVX? If so, the low light rep is awsome. I want those scene settings!

Nice job overall though.


EDIT: I dontwant to sound too critical. That's better than I can do. Technically, you have most of your bases covered, it just feels off a llittle.
 
very nice. In slow mo you can still see the "blown away" actors' legs still standing, as his double is blown off stage. Nice effect tho!
 
You guys have a very good eye. So here is my whole reasoning behind this. I am preparing for a film that we will start production on this Saturday. There is one scene where a bomb explodes and two of the characters are in the foreground, with the bomb in the background. This was a test, only a test, if it were a real emergency you would have heard about it in the newspapers I'm sure :). This was some footage that I shot for an Opera about a week ago, and was certainly less than ideal for composition of a huge bomb explosion, but I thought it would be fun none the less.

Anyways, my question is, if you only watched it once, and didn't step through it frame by frame, would it look convincing?
Just for everyone asking, this was all composited in vegas. The actor double was made in Poser6 and then composited in with vegas as well.
 
scharky said:
Anyways, my question is, if you only watched it once, and didn't step through it frame by frame, would it look convincing?
Just for everyone asking, this was all composited in vegas. The actor double was made in Poser6 and then composited in with vegas as well.
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Almost. The sound threw it off, as well as some of the actual comp.

If somene who didn't know anything about CG saw it, I am sure it would go over much better.

Was that shot with a DVX though? I can't ever get that level of clarity with such low light. It is very very clean.

The blurs were too perfect, that's the main thing. The main guy should get engulfed quicker and cast a shadow sooner. Add highlights and shadows to the guy being blown off stage where he should have them.

I didn't even realize he was a digital double until you mentioned it. Great work there. (hide his legs on the stage).

Just watched again, GREAT work with Poser.
 
I think what got it for me was that you said it was an accident and then the explosion just so happened to time up perfectly with the actor when he thrust his arms forward. I thought that was too coincidental. But I didnt post last night because I didnt want to be the first to post and say I thought it was fake if it turned out to be real. So good job.
 
I think one of the biggest giveaways is the fact that despite being so close to the actiion, the camera stays nice and steady and unflinching. There should be a lot more camera movement when the explosion happens. The fade to black at the end kinda spoils the reality element as well.

Nice effect though. And that was a good hand-off from the real guy to the digital double. Just make sure you get the legs next time :thumbsup:
 
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