{"id":732,"date":"2015-11-21T18:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T18:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/?p=732"},"modified":"2015-10-27T21:45:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T21:45:24","slug":"commercial-china-southern-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/commercial-china-southern-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial: China Southern Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-733\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/55326761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-733 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/china_southern_air_thumb_1.jpg\" alt=\"china_southern_air_thumb_1\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/china_southern_air_thumb_1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/china_southern_air_thumb_1-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to play video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I worked on this with <a href=\"http:\/\/darkroasted.com\/\">Dominic Taylor<\/a> who had set up the comps, cameras, and worked with the clients on the direction. I mainly did the flipboard effect.<\/p>\n<p>This was quite a challenging and difficult effect to do in Maya. The main driver of the rotations was expressions; the expression were taking their values from samples from textures, which were generated from AE. The main difficulty lay in the fact that it was <em>slow<\/em>, and it needed to be baked out before it could be sent to the farm because <em>setAttr<\/em> was the mandatory method of applying the motions.<\/p>\n<p>The flipboard effect was not only flipping from image A to image B; in fact, it goes through a series of photographs before it resolves into the final, and designing the mechanics of the scene took some tries before getting right.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, LW&#8217;s nodal displacement in conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/dpont.pagesperso-orange.fr\/plugins\/nodes\/nodes\/VectorCast.html#PartMove\">Denis Pontonnier&#8217;s Part Move nodes<\/a> is a superior method. Where it took me about week to get all the shots set up in Maya, I think I would have done the same in LW for less than half the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on this with Dominic Taylor who had set up the comps, cameras, and worked with the clients on the direction. I mainly did the flipboard effect. This was quite a challenging and difficult effect to do in Maya. 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