Test Composite

Here's the animation in it's rendered form before any roto work. Also working on integrating some Maya fluid dust plumes. Right click HERE and choose Save-As.

Animation Update

The wheels on the buggy now use a noise texture to operate the translate.Y channel, semi-automating the higher frequency bumps. It's so subtle that you hardly notice them at this distance.

Check it out HERE.

August 06, 2008 Update

Here's a rising dust test using Maya fluids. The background is a random car-related photo I took at the track. Feels like the fluid dust can use a volumetric lighting pass, as well as falling back to the ground after a certain time.

Download dust test clip HERE.

I also had an animation update as well, but all that's been updated is the wheels turning + power slides. I want to get the secondary animations in there as well before i post. I'm thinking about using a procedural pattern to affect the the wheel bumps.

Pumpkin Patch Playblast

We've shot several background plates for tests, and here's one with the buggy weaving around a pumpkin patch. Tracked in Boujou, rough animation in Maya.

There are issues with maya importing a scene with multiple layers of referenced files which still need to be worked out.

You can check out the clip HERE.