Hi! I thought I'd try and submit something from one of the more interesting projects that we have done recently! I work for Crystal CG International in London, and this project was produced by several of us there - it's not my personal project!
This project was done in conjunction with the BBC's R&D team. If you want a bit more nitty gritty on it, there was a nice blog post written up by the BBC's R&D team on their blog which can be seen
here.
Effectively, it was an experimental way of moving from one court to another. Instead of the usual wipe, we hoped to "pull out" of the camera in the stadium to reveal our CG version of Wimbledon, with the live game still being projected into the venue. The camera then moves to the next venue, with
that live game being projected into the venue, also. We had some teething issues that we hope to rectify for next time, but all in all it went rather well. Here's an example
of it in action, which actually shows a few of the problems we had. We ended up creating 28 separate sequences between 150-400 frames long (comped at 50fps) so we have plenty more areas and images to show, if anyone is interested in seeing them!
The visual style we went for - which is slightly at odds with the live-footage that is popped in there - is that of a little Playmobile style toy land. All the people in the crowd and around the park have little green plastic stands on their feet, there's heavy depth of field and nice glossy, reflective walls!
As I said, it was an R&D project, so the final application here is somewhat work in progress, but we're quite happy with the visuals we managed to create here. If you have any questions, please ask!
Dan
