Norton Commando Transformer

[ARCHINSTL]

http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKqpvriKZuA

This is REALLY clever ! ! !
Being clueless, 'puter wise - how was it done?
Tom M.

[Starbug]

The video's resolution isn't crystal, but from what it looks like, I'd say the man and the bike he drives off on were filmed first and then the robot was digitally added later by Maya or similar video editing/3D modeling software. They then took the fully transformed robot-bike and morphed/blended it with the real bike so that the guy could then convincingly drive off on it. It's how they added the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: film the humans first and then "paint" the dinosaurs in later with 3D modeling software (Maya & similar programs).

Robot ==> robot-bike (computer generated bike) ==> blending sequence ==> real bike ==> real bike drives off.

During the blending sequence, the computer generated bike is meshed with the real bike. Probably only takes a few film frames to do it. By the time the man gets on the bike, he's seen getting onto the real one, the computer generated one is nolonger present on the film frame.

[ARCHINSTL]

Thanks!
I'll have to read this several dozen times to understand, but it's a start...
I make all of my own greeting cards (some pretty clever-some pretty corny), but that's the extent of 'puter graphics. Probably a couple hundred cards and dozens of designs each year.
Tom M.

[Starbug]

That's cool, shows you put effort into your greeting cards. Anybody can just go into a store and buy one.... but yours have more thought and effort into them.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make movie special effects. Unfortunately I don't want to live in CA where most of it is done. Oh well!