COMPOSITING TUTORIAL

TUTORIAL - HOW TO COMPOSITE IN 3D

Here's a nice tutorial (PDF) that I wrote this week on compositing 3D objects into a photograph using 3D Studio Max.  We'll go through this in the next class.  Here's a picture of the composited photograph.

Download my PDF tutorial here.

Download the project files here.

THE GOODYEAR BLIMP BUZZED MY HOUSE!

OK, not really :-)   This is just a fun video project that I was trying to finish for our class this week.  I'll show it to you in class.  I'm still working on it, but so far it looks very cool.  In the video, I'm doing an interview with someone standing just outside of my home, when suddenly there's a roaring sound of aircraft propellers overhead as the Goodyear Blimp does a dangerous low altitude flyover.  The Blimp is modeled in 3D Studio Max.  I used some reflective materials on the blimp and used a reflection bitmap of house roof-tops reflecting on the blimp.  I used motion blur, fog & smoke effects.  And, the composite of the blimp is through a lot of tree limbs to add to the realism.  Here's a photo of the blimp without the composite.  (Credit:  The blimp 3D model is a free download that I got from somewhere.  I'd love to give the author the credit for his model, but I can't remember where I got it.)

Our "games" class starts in 2 weeks.  But, if you have an interest in video compositing, we can spend another class session on how to do this Blimp fly-over video compositing project.