Sick effect

markcheng said:
i think that when they were filming it, the director yelled "hold it!" when the guy was at his peak so he freezes. then the crew slowly rotates around him probably using a dolly. then once they're back to their original position (should be marked with chalk) the director yells "now go at the same speed!" and then he goes back down on the water. There's probably some rotoscoping work to be done.
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Always the comedian, Mark. :)

How's DS coming along?
 
duh sorry just read that you're in LA. I was just there this weekend of the Action on Film Festival! DS was up for Best Science Fiction and Best Special Effects...we walked home with nothing but hangovers and fun times...
 
markcheng said:
duh sorry just read that you're in LA. I was just there this weekend of the Action on Film Festival! DS was up for Best Science Fiction and Best Special Effects...we walked home with nothing but hangovers and fun times...
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Good times!
 
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Gentlemen if you watch the board just as it starts/ends the effect, look at the wake board. You'll see a logo by his upper right foot (black, red and white) will appear and disappear. It's definitely a 3d model, and a damn good job! :)
 
Its done on location ( or studio in same light setup) It clearly shows him laying on his back thus the reason hes got a flat spot on his back. Hes laying on a greenscreen box. Not rotoscoped from original shot nor a 3D model... The shots set up like this.

Original footage, freezes and then cuts to green screen, Guy is laid out into same pose. Cameraman simply shots around him 360 deg with actor not moving. This is life action not 3D.....

If you check frame by frame the person is off a little on his pose from original background. To smoth this out a simple morph is done from original brackground to greenscreened actor. You see this when he fades in a little.

Then the original backgropund is changed with a photoshop one. The beackground would be either put onto a 3D plane or simply the background made larger and moved from left to right with motion blur to give that 3D camera look... I personaly would do this myself in photoshop by making the image the same height but making it 4 times longer and filling it in with other footage shot from that day. If you plan ahead you would go and take some still pics from the same area to make it pan out nicle. At the speed its running it isnt picked up by the watchers eye but if you watch it frae by frame its quite messy and the greenscreen very poor. The acor is greenscreened holding onto his pull rope.

Hope this helps you all out.
 
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Anyone know how to do that effect without all the 360 ****. I want to rotate a background at the Y axis and zoom the front layer (subjects head) away from the BG layer.
 
Actually I was going crazy over how they did this too....They made that film about 3 or 4 years back......I actually own that DVD too....And I can say confidently it was 100% studio work.......Look close at the handle when it rotates.....The rope hadle shakes a lot.....This doesn't really explain it but I asked them about this a long time ago and confirmed it was studio work.....If you watch the movie they have more studio shots which looks good on the site but if you watch it on a TV it looks cheesy....They do a lot of greenscreen work as well......

For example, if you watch the trailer for Refraction the shot where the boarder goes over the slider at the beginning with the sunset in the background....Greenscreened...

Also not to rank on them, but their trailers are way better than the movie itself.....There was only that one 360 shot in the whole thing.....And the movie wasn't as intense or exciting as the trailer....

I've seen tons of wakeboard films and while I do believe they put insane trailers together, the movies are less than spectacular.....Just my opinion...Glad they still try though....:Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
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