Artefact six

Artefact six from Rob Antill on Vimeo.

This being the last artefact I wanted to combine all the techniques I have learnt in the past 10 weeks. My first idea was to model a tram and then have it derailing and crashing. I realised this was a little ambitious so I came up with another idea. I wanted to show a concept of what the future may hold in the way of 3D monitors and operating systems.

So to create this I first had to get some footage of a screen. Below is what my set up usually looks like. This was far to messy for what I wanted so I cleaned it all up to make it look as futuristic as possible.

Here’s the modified set..

I did some test pans and realised that trying to shoot this free hand was going to be a problem. When I came to tracking it in Boujou it was evident that there was too much camera shake. So I went about creating my own DIY dolly came out of a tripod and skateboard. This worked really well, I was able to get a fairly smooth camera pan.

I displayed red on the screen which enabled me to key it out allowing for the 3D replacement to be inserted. I used the tracking data produced from Boujou to create a 3D space within Ae and a camera track for the 3D modelled balls.

For the shots of the web browser I used Photoshop to create the layers then in Ae I simply put the layers on different Z values then with the tracking data applied it gives the allusion that its coming out the screen.

Over all I’m pretty pleased with the results I think as a concept its pretty unique. I would like to have spent more time on this may be tracking some more shots and more animation of the operating system but time is always an issue unfortunately.

Comments and feedback welcomed 🙂