We’ve talked about the Machu Picchu Post video before, the fantastical adventure of a boy and an air mail pilot. MaxUnderground has an interview with the Supinfocom students behind the magic : Clément Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali.
As we didn’t have too many outdoor shots, we decided to use a mix of matte painting and camera mapping with self illumination projected onto a 3D low poly mesh. The 3D base was necessary to build the landscape and to capture the shadows of the plane, and then Clément painted textures on it. The really far mountains were only matte paintings. The clouds were all made in 2D and we incorporated and animated them in compositing. For the mist and the wind we used a simple particle system with a map projection of a cloud and a lot of compositing.
