Peasant Village, Visual effects in live action
Peasant Village - Shot 1Previs
Here is the previs for shot 1. My first idea for this shot was to do a transition from 3d to filmed footage, but it was too hard to get a smooth dolly. So I will do this shot in full cg instead except for the character. I will put a filmed character on a card in 3d space and then comp that in to the shot. The character isn’t in this previs but he will be walking in front of the camera at the end of this shot.
I have also done some house modeling for the village. These are really low poly models because it will be a fast moving shot and quite a lot of motion blur and therefore I don’t think I will be needing more details. In the image at the bottom I have just put a radial blur to see how it looked with motion blur. I did some test on how to do the motion blur in the final shot and I think I can get way with rendering a motion vector pass and do the motion blur in Nuke. But if doesn’t look good in the final I will do the motion blur in maya. But that will of course increase render time quite a lot.
Critique is always welcome 
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