3/24/2024 0 Comments Secrets of softimage3d![]() “He wanted me to double check the math on it. “I remember visual effects supervisor Rob Legato calling me into the review suite – this was my first time meeting Jim – and Jim was quite disappointed that the fall did not feel far enough,” says Jones. ![]() Tasked with the shot, Jones’ first pass at the spinning animation in Softimage didn’t quite meet Cameron’s expectations. Andy Jones spoke about his work on propeller guy, and his many other projects, at the Imagining the Future symposium at NIFFF (Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival) in 2016. Ultimately, the character was entirely hand keyframed by animator Andy Jones, who was then working on his first film, and is now an Oscar winner for his work on Avatar and The Jungle Book. The propeller guy was handled slightly differently, in that he required a very specific kind of action notably spinning. These full size stunts also became a basis for extended and enhanced passenger animations.” Spinning and spinning and spinning We did also film stunt people doing high falls into air bags down at the Hughes hangar where the miniature ship was being shot on the motion control stages. “The capture data would get the overall animation going,” adds Bustanoby, “and then the animation team would extend the stunt to fall hundreds of feet, hitting things along the way et cetera. “But those were meant to be used as a starting basis for people falling off and onto different parts of the deck as the ship sank – the first 10-20 per cent of the animation would be capture and then keyframe animation would extend the shot as needed.” “We did performance capture many, many stunt vignettes using the production’s stunt team,” says Andre Bustanoby, a motion capture supervisor on Titanic. ![]() The roto-capture technique consisted of motion capturing a performance with a limited number of markers, and using the result as a 3D reference to hand animate the CG characters, mainly for stunt scenes. Propeller guy would eventually be all hand keyframed. A scene from the motion capture shoot for Titanic’s stunt doubles.
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