Mango: Compositing Breakdown
Andy shares the compositing breakdown of one shot on the Mango blog. I’m blown away by the insane amount of work that goes into a shot like this!
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Andy shares the compositing breakdown of one shot on the Mango blog. I’m blown away by the insane amount of work that goes into a shot like this!
Awesome compositing. I do think that everyone who could literally composite everything, always uses some unnecessary passes XD.
Great breakdown. And always better to have a few extra passes, just in case.
Would’ve been smarter to use RGB masks for some things…that way you get 3-in-1 :D
Still…really amazing work! I can’t wait to see the final product! :D
I’m not sure if rgb masks apply, those masks are a result of holdout shaders in the actual 3D scene.
since most of the environment is linked in as a group from an external file, there’s no room for quick material adjustments (although something like automatic material IDs would be a great feature!).
Fantastic insight into the compositing work on Mango! I’m always amazed with just how powerful the compositor is; for my project I’m using the compositor but nowhere near to this extent. Fantastic work!
Andy Curry
Project Lead
The Journeyman Project: Tribute
http://andyjourneyman.blogspot.com
Didn’t know Blender had a fog pass. Maybe a Z pass with color? Or a new addition.
or Myst pass?
Blender Internal does have a Mist Pass which you can render for each Layer. In Cycles we have to do some trickery with a custom environment shader using the material override function. it works quite well, we’re still hoping for volumetrics though!
Wow. Very impressive result.
Looks amazing… Want to see the full movie result… NOW! :)
The composition is frightening, yet it doesn’t look very photorealistic to me.
Agree on the photorealistic part. I wonder, since it’s a work in progress, if the 3D render is intentionally low quality – just enough to create masks.
masks are pretty “heavy” here… I’m confused and amazed at the same time…
Wow. I like to do multiple passes too, but thats just ridiculous. Whatever works I guess…
oh my god…
The Mango team are not playing around.That is a lot of layers/passes.
Really excited now to see it finished.
Congrats guys and gals and thank you for the sneak peak.
thanks a lot for the plug!
to clarify: there aren’t any unused or unnecessary passes in this composition. most of the “masks” are actually geometry output from blender. they are necessary to split foreground from background and thus make it possible to integrate a flat footage into a 3D environment. the fact that the camera is actually moving doesn’t allow any cheats on this. in total that’s only about 5 render layers which is normal for this type of comp.
.andy
Wow, it looks very good, but also looks like insane amount of work as
far as masks go. Is it natural for every movie that mixes CG set with
real set?
How are all these masks done?
I cant imagine how the Node editor would looks like ! :P