Concepts

We went through a good number of iterations before we and the tutors were happy to work on the project, going from a hovering jet to a helicopter and a real life station to something mashed together from references.

Tracking

I tracked all the shots in 3D Equilizer without much issue. I outputted cone renders, and then once the tutors were happy with them I started layout.

Layout

For the layout of the shots I had to build the scene geo; as it was quite complex i needed to scan the train that runs in the middle of the footage to get the proper reflections as well as the volumes to render properly. The issue was with such little footage to work with I could only get a scan from one side and the scan came out bent like a banana. I had to straighten this with a lattice deformer in maya and then I centered the rest of my layout around these objects.

Rigging

Animation

Lighting

Rendering