Set Up An Intense CG Street Race Composition – CG Premium
Tutorial Details
- Software: After Effects, Boujou, & 3dsMax
- Difficulty: Advanced
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
If you’ve ever tried to shoot a car chase scene, you know how hard it is to get everything set up right. Besides being extremely difficult to reset your shots, getting the perfect angle and nailing your timing can be next to impossible unless you can find a deserted road somewhere. With this tutorial, you’ll be able to pull off shots that are guaranteed to impress (cause they’re not real). Half of the tutorials are available in AE Premium, the other half of the series is available through CG Premium… enjoy!
In this complete tutorial, we will take you through the process of creating a CG Street Race shot, using a background footage plate and various 3D elements. We will start by preparing the footage for use in tracking the camera movement. We will then track the footage using Boujou tracking software. Once tracked, we will take the 3D camera data into 3D Studio Max and create a basic proxy scene and animation. We will then import hi res 3D car models into 3D and link them to our proxy animation. We will also light the scene to help blend the 3D assets into the BG footage. Once the 3D assets are ready, we will render out the elements using multipass rendering and bring them into After Effects for compositing the shot. You will learn how to layer multipass renders and how to use layer modes for the various elements. Then we wil apply various post production treatments including post-motion blur, color correction and audio. Once you have stepped through the entire process, you will be left with a believable CG shot, for use in your showreel or projects….
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Parts:
- Part1 – Preparing the Footage, Tracking
- Part2 – Setting up for 3D and creating a simple proxy 3D set and car animation
- Part3 – Importing hi-res 3D models and setting up lighting and rendering
- Part4 – Setting up for final render passes
- Part5 – Compositing the shot in After Effects
- Part6 – Post production and color treatment
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That is really a great tutorial idea, I think I will soon be buying premium!
Thanks a lot.
I will need to renew my premium as it expires soon. I can’t dare miss a part of this one.
>< not working for me.
Will try at home =]
Great tut! I was thinking of doing this in a tutorial, but with cg all the way. This is even cooler!
This looks like it will be excellent! I can’t wait.
Signed up for Premium and find none of the links work for tutorials, no contact info to report. I canceled subscription right away. Really disappointed in site and hope someone addresses user experience.
Hi Jeremy,
I’m really very sorry to hear that your experience wasn’t what you were expecting. We were having a few issues with the Premium system when these videos were posted, however I’m happy to say that these are now fixed. I’m positive that were to resubscribe, the tutorials available through our Premium system would seem extremely worth the money! If there’s anything you would specifically like to see happen, feel free to let me know and I’ll do what I can to ensure that Premium experience lives up to it’s name.
Thanks, and apologies again for the issues,
Matt
Sounds like a great tutorial. I’m not sure how many people will have boujou though. I don’t have boujou and can’t see myself ever affording it. Could the tracking in After Effects do the job, or is only good for 2d work?
Joined Premium to see this. In Premium Content, if I click on “view screencast” I get “200. Stream not found”. If I right click on title, and try to save flv, then I get “This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.” Can anyone help please?
Edit : Found my own answer on the AE Tuts part. None of the videos work.
Hi Colin,
I’m really sorry that you had problems accessing the videos. Hopefully all the problems are now fixed, but if you’re still having any issues, please feel free to let me know and I’ll address them directly.
Thanks,
Matt
Hello
I found your site some time ago, so I put in cinema 4d
I have followed your tutorials but I have a problem whenever I want to make an appointment, such as a QuickTime movie made, I get an error: “error-saving image”
I do not know where does this problem have you any idea?
sorry for my English, I’m french.
Thank you very much
That cars look to be floating across the road. That’s kinda odd. I think it would be more realistic if they turned slightly.
I think you need to go out and look at some high speed traffic. The faster a vehicle is moving the less you see the angle change… as it changes lanes. Fast cars glide from side to side, due to inertia. If the car was traveling at 20km/h you would see the car turning quite a lot…