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"In Dire Need" - Camera Mapping Breakdown
Published by Bart on April 13th, 2008 in Art, Videotutorials
Blender Artist Colin Levy participates in the PSAId contest with an short video. He has also published a video explaining how he made it - focusing on the camera mapping.
"PSAid is a public service announcement (PSA) contest for U.S.-based college and university students. PSAid seeks entries of broadcast and print PSAs which explain the importance of appropriate international disaster relief and build support for international disaster relief work done by well-established, U.S.-based international disaster relief organizations."
Colin writes:
A few weeks ago I made a 30-second PSA for a national contest focused on
disaster relief. Now, it looks like I'm one of only five finalists in the
country!I just put together a brief overview of the visual effects process involved in
the creation of the short. I used matte paintings and camera projection to
replace the environment in the big reveal shot at the end. It was pretty
challenging, and took me over a week to complete! Of course I used Blender for
everything 3D:If you'd like more information about camera tracking or camera mapping, I've
got some old tutorials on my site that may still interest you.
Links
- Colin's entry
- See see all the PSAid entries (and vote for your favorite one).
- Colin's website and tutorial
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@Bart: Oops, seem to have missed the http:// of the start of the "Colin's website and tutorial" link, also you've used a capital I in PSAid for the link above that…
Oops! Early Sundaymorning post eh ;-) I fixed both errors.
On a totally different note: That's some decent VFX in that shot… especially for just 2 1/2 weeks. I wish you luck, Colin, for the final.
Great Colin good luck!
Impressive work - move on !!
Levy is genius.
That is absolutely excellent and very informative as well!
I voted for you Colin.. your entry is the best among all!
Fantastic work, Colin!
where is the tutoril ?
is it the old camera mapping one on his site ? i thought it was kind of making off the in dire need.
I don't like voting for something just because Blender is used in it, but after watching all 5 finalists I voted for it simply because I thought it was the best of them all. Great job Colin!
Congrats…..his personal site is blendenationed!
vfx is so yummy :)
another reason to get excited for blenders motion tracker :D
Impressive work :D.
Arite.
He will make good candidate for the next Blender VFX project in the future.
thats funny that you guys published this i have been re-reviewing that first camera mapping tutorial over the last week. good luck on the contest.
Beautiful job, Colin. The tutorial link is of course swamped at this point. I hope to see it later.
Colin is very good in 3D.
And this is the link http://www.peerlessproductions.com/ his site.
And i have a another site may interest you http://walkercreations.org/blender.html
On this site you find tutorials and the complete blender Issues all 15 of them with blend files.
Simply WoW! Very inspiring video!
Wow, this is amazing!
Great work Colin !
I've watched all entries, and I voted for Colin.
His work is really the most professionnal.
Well done !
Thanks so much guys! Glad you like it. :D
Very well done. =D
OK Colin! …… What is the deal with the server that cannot handle an BN flood? :)
Hah, I know! Maybe it's time to switch to a new host…
If you truly want to help the server… SEND CASH
Amazing !
congrats, well done.
I think GIMP needs a UI abstraction layer.
UI's I want:
classic GIMP
photoshop
experimental
Great Job Colin!!!
- it looks very professional.
(and makes me want to get tracking software) :)
Fantastic work! So you made the transition from Icarus to pftrack I didn't know there was an exporter for blender that really surprises me. did you write the exporter yourself or do the pixel farm have one?
Colin,
Outstanding work!
Really awesome stuff Colin! Great job! You've got some serious talent.
Heh. My first name is Colin also.
Good job with the video! It looks real!
Another Great Work !!!
Cool man keep it UP!!
The video as posted makes a wonderful tutorial on camera tracking! Very well done. Bookmarking under video tutiorials NOW! :)
Wow, that is really neat. I like the effects!
NathanKP - Inkweaver Review
Colin!!! Hey kid. This is the first time I've ever said this: "This entry made with Blender IS the BEST!" and not the first time I've ever said this "You're the man now dog!"