Haha Thanks Dave!
I tried using some vehicle plugins or the car rig, but the were a pain, So I just separate the wheels from the rest of the vehicle, and everything above the wheels I put on a vibrate tag with some up-and-down motion and some random rotations. Takes a bit to dial it in but once you hit the sweet spot it feels so good. It’s hard to tell but I even have some vibrating on the tire some selves, it’s just very small.
the desert is a drone shot from Pexels.com free. I’ve got a drone now so I want to shoot as much of my own stuff as possible. I’m really trying to integrate models into live action footage as seamless as possible. Getting closer! I really wanted to find an abandoned military base, or a large parking lot I could still shoot then add real elements to it, but I had no luck so I just had to do it all in CG. I have vibrate tags on the camera as well although it’s hard to see, you can really tell when they’re off. And I have those suckers moving pretty fast, like lots of small shakes, Which you could really tell when the camera slows down so I keyframe of them out to pretty much nothing, but that’s why the end looks too smooth and comes to too much of an abrupt stop which makes it look fake, need to fix that.
Haha yup, flight of the navigator indeed. I believe they’re actually working on a remake of that movie right now. Over the summer we’re actually going to shoot a lot of live action scenes for our full long trailer as a pitch piece. What 1 million chance if we’re lucky, lol.
yesss the jeep wheels immediately bugged me, I wasn’t sure how to add that trailing water effect. I’ll definitely check out what you mentioned, and you also mentioned the idea of just using a flat texture to fake the effect is pretty great. I did that with the sparks hitting the ground when the ship flies through the hallways. It’s just a flat plane with an image sequence of Sparks.
Also one thing I want to do with the shot is replace the closest CG character General with a live action person on green screen. Still use the CG character to cast shadows, throw that green screen footage on a plane, then will put the actor on a stool and when the jeep turns will turn them at the same speed. Haha fingers crossed!!!