MAUGER

My primary role on this film was to create and integrate a background into several shots filmed in a green screen studio. I was also tasked with performing a day for night conversion as well as adding rain into the scene. 

Greenscreen Plates

These are the original green screen plates I was given at the start of this project.  The keys were mostly standard and the only real obstacle was uneven lighting. The bottom two shots required some extra care since I needed to roto out the tracking markers. The bottom left shot included a dolly move and therefore needed a 3D camera track. 

Final Mattes

These are the final alpha channels from each of the green screen plates.

Background Creation

Since the same background would be used for each of these shots, I needed to come up with a way to keep things flexible. I opted to start with a high resolution image of an empty lot and then clean up any undesired elements such as vehicles, signs, and power lines. After this image was finished, It was brought into nuke and projected into 3D space. The reasoning for this was to not only to allow me to move the camera as required, but also to provide a depth channel. 

The depth channel proved to be incredibly valuable as it allowed me to add realistic depth of field to the shot as well as atmospheric perspective. This added to the rainy night time setting I was trying to create. Clouds were then added into the 3D scene in order to push the sense of depth in the shot as well as make the parralax more believable in the shots with a moving camera. 

Wide Shot Setup

This is the basic layout of two of the green screen plates to make it appear as if the actor is standing on Mauger's hand.

Here, I added some volumetric lighting as well as some color correction to better suit the setting in which the scene takes place.

Final Frames

These are the final composites with the characters integrated into the environment shown above. Final additional elements included additional color correction as well as some light rain made with nukes built in particle system.