Ok,
Ill remove the mystery and reveal a range of hacks then
- I ran outside and made the 35mm footage of the concrete pole in focus.
- I made sure there were little to no paralax because I knew the more paralax the harder it would be to maintain a belivable optical output.
- Dumped the HD footage and cut out around 200 images.
- Burned them to a jpg sequence while maintaining the raw footage in the master composition.
- Used Boujou to nodal-pan track ( as there were no paralax ) the footage.
- exported the camera and point cloud to 3dsmax.
- made the logo and did a few test renders to verify intergrity.
- exported the logo to obj
- imported it to octane and had a light green flat diffuse background behind it.
- setup sun in same angle as it was in the footage.
- rendered 1 frame
- screengrab'ed the logo on the green
- used a keyer to key out the green ( create an alpha channel )
- back to 3dsmax, used MAX2AE which can port camera/object relation to After effects in 3d space, snaped a control plane to the front of the logo and exported the sequence to AE
- back in AE, placed the octane render inside my 4 corner pin track
- back to max and render a matte/shadow pass on the top surface with brazil 2 area shadows.
- comped the shadows and the octane render together.
- colour graded with colorista
- played with gausian blur to add some focus pulling
- exported flv
- made a small flv output from the awesome film/image player from slideshow pro
- upload to net
- post link here
