Road Collapse
This one was all about integrating a CG road collapse with live-action footage. The main challenge was making the simulation have real weight and make it feel like the car was truly in the same setting with the collapse.
In depth breakdown coming soon…
Software Used: Houdini, Karma USD, Nuke, Davinci, After Effects
Original plate from Action VFX
Reference
Camera Tracking
Solved the 3D camera space from the live action plate (camera info provided by Action VFX)
Establishing an accurate scene scale. To guarantee absolute accuracy in the scene scale, I sourced a 1:1 3D model of the specific vehicle in the footage and tracked it directly into the Nuke environment.
The perfect scale allowed me to create the ground plane card to match the width of the road, which was then exported to Houdini for RBD simulation.
