Camera projection / camera mapping / 2.5D - the number 1 VFX technique

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Here's a short story of how visual effects in most of your favorite movies are being done with camera projections.

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@stefenfangmeier131 5 жыл бұрын

Hello there ... funny that I came across this clip on KZfaq. I actually worked on the digital aspect of the work done by ILM on Hook and certainly on this particular shot. Anyways, sort of silly how so many comments get stuck on the voice-over. I bet you would have liked mine, with a good German accent and all. If you search for me on google or youtube, I imagine that there are plenty of talks of mine out there ... I never checked, haha. To add what was said, the trick of projecting a 2D painting onto a simple 3D geometry is that in this case, Yusei painted the landscape in a perspective for the final frame of the shot and thus at the end of the camera's perspective travel. The projection that I did then simply revealed that final painting in a perspective manner. Compositing that cotton cloud element was painful. I added a lot of simple 2D fractal mist patterns to fly through camera to integrate Robin William's blue-screen element with those clouds. Also, note that I took the outline of his 2D figure and distorted it as a cast shadow over the cotton cloud element. Yes, that water fall was a simple particle simulation that I added. And, added the rainbow as well, with a little bit of subtle variation in its appearance throughout. I started at ILM on T-2. And the one thing I still remember is that most of the guys still working the optical printers on Hook just couldn't believe how many versions of the digital comps I would run in order to get it right. Well, next I moved on to Jurassic Park with Steven ... and it all changed. Anyways, for all of you watching something like this, don't get so hung up on the voice-over. It actually wasn't that bad, in my opinion. Of course, all of this stuff is now available via in-expensive, off-the-shelf software. Heck, you can now create a dinosaur on your personal computer and make it move. The only reason for all of you geeks to watch this sort of video is to find out when and how it was all invented. And those were the fun days of doing VFX, right at the frontier of how something that hadn't been done before was figured out by a fairly small team at ILM. T-2, Jurassic Park, Twister, Perfect Storm... it can't get much better than that! Cheers, Stefen Fangmeier

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

Hello Stefen! Thank you for writing about the process, it's great to have all that information directly from you. And the purpose of this video is exactly to present how a technique, so important today in VFX creation, was invented.

@Cineinsaner 4 жыл бұрын

i dont read your cmt

@franbelda1951 4 жыл бұрын

Oh shit! Stefen has been the VFX supe on some of my favorite movies! Master and Commander FFS! Hey Stefen, I'm a fan!

@eias3d 4 жыл бұрын

Ola Stefen, Did you use Electric Image to do this particular shot? if am I not wrong, it was the first 3d software providing a Camera Map feature :)

@LikeAGentlemanPlease 4 жыл бұрын

Stefen Fangmeier bruh. I’m sorry but I stopped reading after “Hook” and I have to thank you for being apart of my childhood. You should let someone interview you for KZfaq to document your experiences in the film industry. Edit. Should’ve read the whole thing lol.

@brettcameratraveler 5 жыл бұрын

Two things to consider: 1)Real voiceover work is incredibly affordable. 2)No KZfaq channel that uses text to speech is incredibly successful.

@reddyepie7439 5 жыл бұрын

Thats the hard truth

@andrewowen7913 5 жыл бұрын

ZeroLenny, a gaming channel, found success through text to speech but that is the only one I can think of. And he uses his real voice every now and again

@616Metalhead616 5 жыл бұрын

Who says that this Person behind this Channel WANTS to be successful? ;) But 3152 Likes, 23k+ Abonnements.., hmm.., it's a lot in my eyes. :D

@thinkpixelsblog 5 жыл бұрын

I agree, there is some GREAT content here, but having a monotone robotic voice read it just lowers the production value. Ever consider using one of those online VO services? Recently I did a project with one of those and it sounded amazing. A great narrator would make this video look like it came off the Discovery Channel.

@vid828 5 жыл бұрын

Straight fax

@imaginemindjalota803 5 жыл бұрын

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@theyouga353 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these enriching videos, you're awesome :)

@TVrayvaughan 5 жыл бұрын

I will do your voiceovers for you. Just replace the robot. This was such a great video, just needed more personality. Also I'm not kidding. I will record some VO for you.

@LiminalVoices 5 жыл бұрын

Right?? What is with people on KZfaq using synthetic voices?? They really hate thier voice that much? Think they sound like the Elephant Man?? Dont have friends who could do a quick VO? Or know some random asshole who could? Its unfortunate cos this video is a neat little historical piece. But everytime the robot stops his sentence dead is distracting.

@ThisOLmaan 5 жыл бұрын

@@LiminalVoices : Could be, some dont have the voice, but i know there tons of ways to disguise, mask ect

@Onimirare 5 жыл бұрын

My main problem with recording myself talking is my extremely strong accent. I live in Brazil and is really rare to find English speakers, so l don't practice nearly as much as l wanted to have a fluid speech. Maybe that's the reason, or maybe not. idk lol

@ThisOLmaan 5 жыл бұрын

@@Onimirare :: tell you the truth i too dont like the way i sound on speakers, but these commenters dont see the full picture, they just talk to talk

@LiminalVoices 5 жыл бұрын

@@ThisOLmaan I can see where @Onimirare is coming from. It helps to hear this kind of dialogue to get the full picture. My comment is more about that useing voice-to-text softwares can often make a great video sound unappealing or take a viewer out of the enchantment that information or a story told. If people who do more to make an effort to use thier own or someone elses voice it can be suprising the affect it can have an the viewer. i know sometimes it can be uncomfortable to use one's own voice. But it is this genuineness that comes forth that can be most rewarding for the viewer and oftentimes the creator as well. I appreciate @Onimirare wanting to sound more fluid. This can certainly come across, perhaps, more professional. With a channel like VFX Geek, if he is going to put all this effort into designing his channel he should invest in a human voice. It would make his channel more enriching. Even witha lack of resources, there a ways to get a human to narrate.

@onix3d 5 жыл бұрын

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@yacinejulian6678 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. and the voice-over is understood and I won't complain about it

@RSpudieD 5 жыл бұрын

Very well worded and informative! Good job!

@tahghighcenter4085 4 жыл бұрын

thank you so much for great information in vfx industry. I follow you seriously.

@G-OVL 5 жыл бұрын

I have no idea how I found your channel, but so glad I did. I am interested in all things CGI and am trying to learn from this industry to enhance my architectural design and presentation work. Great Channel !! Please keep them coming.

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

@awethumbnail4887 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! So good!

@JoshuaFluke1 5 жыл бұрын

Forget these people talking about how no voice over makes this video no good. You provide value. I can appreciate that. But also - you did great in your most recent with a voiceover!

@san.a3449 5 жыл бұрын

I Love This , Thank You.

@gosalh Жыл бұрын

Great video - thank you!!

@Patrynko 5 жыл бұрын

It's fantastic!

@MGSBigBoss77 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent educational video, cheers!

@ivucica 5 жыл бұрын

Almost didn't notice text-to-speech. Interesting that so many commenters did. Without seeing comments, it took me till about half the video to spot something is off. The contraption even "breathes in" near the end!

@PHlophe 5 жыл бұрын

yvan you thought he had a cold maybe

@ivucica 5 жыл бұрын

@OldPossum Why not both?

@kentjensen4504 5 жыл бұрын

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@onix3d 5 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@nijatIbrahimli 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Thank you for nice video :)

@DoctorGuu 5 жыл бұрын

well done! definitely, I'm subscribing

@markhudson5825 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! Great clip!

@icedicefilms 5 жыл бұрын

Your channel is awesome...👌👌👌

@ChrrZ 5 жыл бұрын

great video!!

@itsthomasreimer 5 жыл бұрын

PLEASE use a voiceover artist, they're relatively affordable and the Microsoft Sam voice takes away from your genuinely great work!

@qwame41 5 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work bro

@mehmedtan404 5 жыл бұрын

please, use your own voice. nice videos thanks

@MrNobodyX3 5 жыл бұрын

it's fine; I've used tts when I had trouble speaking to get the cleanest sound

@dixie_rekd9601 5 жыл бұрын

@@MrNobodyX3 yeah but its super annoying and VASTLY reduces the production quality of a really great video.

@OlivioSarikas 5 жыл бұрын

@@MrNobodyX3 It makes the video look like it's made by a content farm.

@8bvg300 29 күн бұрын

Ha! Love the robot presentation

@Dariddda 5 жыл бұрын

Starting at 3:12 I love the flutes in the background music. soo dreamy.

@chrissoba5104 5 жыл бұрын

Je viens de découvrir votre chaine, ce vraiment Amazing. Merci pour des bonnes vidéo. From Congo DRC

@ajaykarmakar5487 4 жыл бұрын

Great video

@adamcboyd 5 жыл бұрын

Actually, Disney invented this process and it was used in Bambi. It was called the Multiplane Camera.

@DavidLGood 4 жыл бұрын

Multi-plane isn't the same as camera projection (unless you're simply projecting an image on flat 'cards' that move in 3D space). With camera projection you're 'projecting' an image onto geometry, allowing a second camera to move (slightly) to make the object appear to be a textured object with modeled detail. Take a house, for example. You could project an image of a simple house onto a 3D box with some geometry for the "gable roof" on top. The projected image then 'attaches' to the very basic geometry, and a second camera can move around (very slightly) to allow parallax -- making the house appear to be a photorealistic 3D model, without spending the time to model and texture all the details. The multiplane camera that Disney created was brilliant, no doubt. Certainly worth a video to highlight how it came about and how it was used.

@overnightclassic2 2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidLGood Camera projection you can move a lot. Especially if you are doing 360 camera projections with multiple cameras, you can do full 360 camera moves. That would be common for an asset that needs to go in many shots and then you would just 3d track and layout every shot the same so it's just a matter of plug and play. With how quickly you can do CG texturing and procedural environments these days it's not used anymore. You could in theory do a full 360 camera projection of say a house and then all the interior pieces could also projection. Advantage is you could render unlimited shots without having to go through cg every time (just camera tracking and layout) both of which can be outsourced.

@bro5384 5 жыл бұрын

lovely video

@AaliyanProduction 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome 😊

@alexdivola 5 жыл бұрын

Just WOW!

@knuppsli 5 жыл бұрын

great videos! great channel! please... more!!! :D

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

There will be more :)

@thesuperstar4470 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the knowledge

@sandeepmates 5 жыл бұрын

great Thanks for explaining . Subscribed

@dylanchaix8638 5 жыл бұрын

thx very instructive

@reptilas3087 9 ай бұрын

Cool!🎉

@HarpreetSingh-iz8em 5 жыл бұрын

Your Chanel must deserve 1 million subscribers

@FaiZan85GTR 5 жыл бұрын

Fusion for Mattepaint is Great.

@ai_is_a_great_place 5 жыл бұрын

Can't believe you didn't narrate this video... Was great other then that.

@saemranian 5 жыл бұрын

just Great

@marquezpeniche 5 жыл бұрын

Great!!!

@apmad5932 5 жыл бұрын

I saw blender software. No.1 in my heart

@floriankummer4885 4 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: It's his actual voice.

@Meteotrance Жыл бұрын

It's also. With this technic of projection mapping that 2D movie, are converted in to stereoscopic 3D feature film, thats why most of the time those movie have bad depth, compare to something shooting or render with right and left camera.

@paulofernando7858 5 жыл бұрын

I really like the voice, it brings some feelings for me, maybe Im crazy

@PatrickMichael2002 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting...

@zetrocadartse646 5 жыл бұрын

i grew up listening to loquendo in tutorials & stuff (a text to speech program specially for spanish text) so i like the robotic voice xd

@DavidLGood 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the software that started it all -- Electric Image Animation System.

@ArtmorProduction 5 жыл бұрын

nice info

@MarcielSilva10 3 жыл бұрын

PLEASE SHOW US ABOUT THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DOWN PART 2 WHERE BELLA'S RUNNING ON THE FOREST 😍

@sheraixy 5 жыл бұрын

In Harry Potter they used in camera mapping for the roof inside of the great hall (first film). Is this the same, like you mentioned in your video? But they didnt use green screen on the set, to key it out later...

@Awakenbeing 5 жыл бұрын

nice video, I use after effects so I would learn camera projection in a professional way.

@davideghirelli4453 4 жыл бұрын

lol..ae for camera projection in a professional way? I don't think so

@akyhne 4 жыл бұрын

Do yourself a favor and use Fusion or similar node based 3D software.

@ALCATRAZOFFICIAL 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for that suberb vid! What is the name of the movie which was shown at the very beginning of the video? (With London Piccadilly) Many thanks!

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

The shot is from a Polish movie Influence (2015) - a rather terrible movie with some nice VFX.

@DobbsyLondon 5 жыл бұрын

A as about to ask what compositor that is when you answered in video. Kudos!

@johndoe-is2fw 5 жыл бұрын

that voice reminds me of home.

@dprvideo 2 жыл бұрын

Good

@albail7488 2 жыл бұрын

🏆🏆🏆

@RYAN-uc6ih 3 жыл бұрын

4:07 After Effects: Love of My Life

@abhishekroy2031 4 жыл бұрын

How to make 3d model of matte?

@akyhne 4 жыл бұрын

No mention of Fusion? Still used in large Hollywood productions.

@devadev12118 5 жыл бұрын

Could u please give a practical example in blender

@devadev12118 5 жыл бұрын

It would be very helpful for me and lot of people

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm planning to do that, in January.

@devadev12118 5 жыл бұрын

@@VFXGeek Thank u

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

@KZfaq Central Not yet, sorry. I want to show camera projection on a real movie project, but I have to wait a bit, cause the film hasn't been released yet.

@PhilipDenys 5 жыл бұрын

@ramsodnar7204 5 жыл бұрын

super dear like it ...... plz. upload new videos

@mariozdk 5 жыл бұрын

What is voice synth ?

@3ATIVE 5 жыл бұрын

It's a synthesizer for voice

@Anonymous-tu4pl 3 жыл бұрын

An amazing video yet again But I have a doubt Does VFX artists have to do the mattepaintings and create a base mesh by themselves or a modeller or someone does this work, And the compositor composites?

@VFXGeek 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :) it depends - sometimes the matte painters create a 3D projection, also to test if it works. But more often compositors will set it up.

@Anonymous-tu4pl 3 жыл бұрын

@@VFXGeek Thanks for the reply And Again Amazing content

@bradhouston4734 5 жыл бұрын

It was great. Really well put together. I wasn't too phased by the lack of real voice, but if I was you I would take the feedback and do it. 😀🕺🏽🎥🏖

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment :) In my newest video it's already my voice. Unfortunately KZfaq doesn't allow to update videos, so I can't change the previous ones.

@bradhouston4734 5 жыл бұрын

VFX Geek well I look forward to checking out the rest and already really enjoyed this video. I watch a LOT of filmmaking, Motion graphics etc and I thought that this was Really solid!

@riteshkakkar9274 5 жыл бұрын

hello what is camera projection

@AaronZhai 5 жыл бұрын

@wrlord 4 жыл бұрын

I don't quite get it. Is it the viewmaster effect?

@Qwa7 4 жыл бұрын

old school

@FarmingWithAsifBashir 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Superb dear Very nice Thank you! 🔥✅💚👍😍♥️💟💝❤️🍓😎😘🌹😱

@user-jh8cx4jf7u 5 жыл бұрын

Isn't this the same technique that's been used on video games especially of the older eras

@paulofernando7858 5 жыл бұрын

still being used. I use in my projects, saves tons of rendering and modelling time.

@SVAFnemesis 5 жыл бұрын

I actually didn’t realize its text to speech

@cristianvalenciano6119 5 жыл бұрын

Anyone knows what is the background music?

@supercutcomedy 5 жыл бұрын

Well

@Ziiser 5 жыл бұрын

Great video! What music is that playing in the background?

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

The music was made with Filmstro.

@Ziiser 5 жыл бұрын

@@VFXGeek Cool thanks! Never heard of Filmstro before.

@mamadvanguard620 5 жыл бұрын

whats the song on the background

@LFPAnimations 5 жыл бұрын

these videos are great, but the robot voice kills it. I would probably sub to you if you used your own voice or paid an actor.

@SanczykLucas 5 жыл бұрын

Sadly yes. Came to the comments to say the same. I can't stand the robotic voice. I would prefer even the cringiest accent or an "ugly" voice from a real human for sure.

@TraitorFelon.14.3 5 жыл бұрын

Why don’t you pay the actor? I’d sub that.

@paulofernando7858 5 жыл бұрын

@@SanczykLucas but please, no indian accent

@primociak 5 жыл бұрын

Really great video :) it sounds and look sooooo easy.... but is Not! I wish somebody can help me on a sci-fi Pilot with this!

@mediagrapher5086 5 жыл бұрын

where can I get my hand on such project files for learning purposes?

@akyhne 4 жыл бұрын

Just take some photos with your cell phone.

@DollyRanch 5 жыл бұрын

Is there a list of sources? I recognise Peter Pan only

@Sebbir 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah i would really like to know what movies these clips were from too

@Mocorn 5 жыл бұрын

If you want to go the digital voice route, check out Google Wavenet. Their AI voices are the absolute best that I've found so far.

@flaggerify 5 жыл бұрын

If indeed a robot voice the pronunciation was impressive. I spotted no errors.

@darkvador6432 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video but hey, what a huge lack / miss at 4:00 , when BMD Fusion is omitted...

@notabotname 5 жыл бұрын

yeah he mentioned blender

@dipayanpaul3229 5 жыл бұрын

Is that music by filmstro?

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is.

@gamerplayer6523 5 жыл бұрын

nice video please make more

@Lp-ze1tg 5 жыл бұрын

Hello: I need your advise. Is a city night scene with 4k 8bit 4:2:2 100mbps enough to be used as green screen background? Actors will be placed/act at the foreground.

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

Do you mean that you will shoot the green screen with 4k 8bit 4:2:2? Or the background that will replace the greenscreen? For greenscreen, it will work, but ideally it should be 10bit or 4:4:4. For background it doesn't really matter.

@Lp-ze1tg 5 жыл бұрын

@@VFXGeek Yes the background that will replace the green screen with 4K 8bit 4:2:2.

@VFXGeek 5 жыл бұрын

@@Lp-ze1tg I see no problem then. If possible shoot in S-LOG, that will give you more space for color correction.

@ZorlacSkater 5 жыл бұрын

The video should have been much longer and more examples would be great. I think the voice is fine enough

@bensmith5612 5 жыл бұрын

I’d prefer subtitles to that robot voice.

@darkvador6432 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, Aside from the voice which could indeed have been more interesting, it's a bit a pity BMD Fusion was forgotten around 4:00 ... No problem, it was averaged by the laugh I had reading AE on the screen ;)