A new press release from Brickyard VFX discusses their new commercial for LG where they combined CG actors with Mocap data to create a powerful and impressive commercial. Some interesting technical stuff went on behind the scenes, however, such as the use of a Phantom Digital Camera on a Panavision Technocrane to simultaneously capture digital footage and mocap data. Also, this was done using Pixar’s experimental Maya-Renderman pipeline.
“The biggest challenge for us was the timeframe but this project also presented a great opportunity to fully exercise Brickyard s feature film-quality Maya Renderman pipeline ” Blumenfeld concluded. “As a beta tester for Pixar the pipeline has been in development for some time and this project provided a large-scale test and it held up great.”
