OK: Spoiler alert to Monuments Men, but if you havent seen this mooooovie yet, youre going to want to add it to your list of must-see. One of Cinesites key sequences in Monuments Men was a reveal of pallets of bags of gold, boxes of money and artwork in a salt mine. The room starts in darkness, and then lights come on in stages, creating an impression of the space expanding and expanding. The trick here was to create something realistic, and at the same time, give filmmakers the largest number of options for telling the story of that particular space. We used photogammetry to recreate everything in the scene -- pallets, bags, tracks with carts on them -- by taking photographs of every object from every angle. We brought those [photographs] into software that looks at all the pictures, and recognizes it as a 3D object. Then we laid out the scene one object at a time, textured them, and lit them, says Jon Neill, VFX Supervisor at Cinesite.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:17:45 +0000