Week 10

I haven’t had much updates as the past few weeks there hasn’t been much visible project on my part. After these past few weeks I finally have the some stuff to show.

First is one of the set extensions we tested a few weeks ago, with this one focusing on enhancing via 2D compositing for things like murals and posters. I made heavy use of Mocha pro for this shot to track.

We where finally able to get access some anamorphic test footage and I was tasked with learning as much as I could about the anamorphic workflow its differences from plates shot on traditional spherical lenes.

Exporting and compositing the plates was very simple so I don’t really have any worries about that. However the 3D workflow (in Houdini) is quite complicated, with zero official documentation, and only 2 forum posts on the internet. I was able to get the pixel aspect to display and render properly in LOPs but anything I imported from the OBJ level did not match the positioning. Most if not all of the 3D work for this project will be coming from the OBJ level so it is very important that we work out a reliable workflow that doesn’t mess with the position. \

Here is a test composite to show the tracked camera, 3D elements, and lens distortion.