Hurricane Heist
An M939 army truck, a Chevrolet pickup and a Ford Crown Victoria, scanned and textured for a Category 5 hurricane.
VIDEO · MODEL VIEWER TO FOLLOW
01 · Brief
Three hero vehicles were going to be chased, thrown about and destroyed in a storm. The VFX team needed each as a detailed, textured model, down to grille, axle and interior.
02 · Toolbox
- Leica P40
- Sony α7R
03 · On location
Tripod-mounted LiDAR around each vehicle for geometry, photogrammetry for the paint and the detail the scanner could not resolve, in a hangar and on a bleak, windswept airfield through a Bulgarian summer.
04 · Result
Three vehicles as textured models in their own liveries, ready for the chases and the storm.
- Textured vehicle meshes
- Clay and photoreal passes
vehicles
scan set-ups
images
days on location
TODO marks 3 figures still to come from Kittiwake. Listed in docs/gaps.md.
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