For the last few weeks, we worked on the hot air balloon festival. This is a project where we used the balloons we made in Maya (I recreated the hot air balloon from scratch) in a template given to us (the background everybody uses) We were told to add our own composition to this, for example, we were told to add a spaceship or some rockets.
For my composition, I went with the sea life above ground. this idea I got this from Coldplay’s Up & Up video. I found these green screen images of different sea animals and added these to my project. The last time I showed a composition of my idea for the hot air balloon festival it was still a very basic overview of my idea. throughout the weeks I added my recreated hot air balloon that in my opinion is more to my liking for a hot air balloon. I think it also fits better in the scene than the hot air balloon I made before. Also when you look in the background you still see the building that will fall to the ground due to the particle force created by the orca. But now I also added the different buildings around it so it won’t be looking like a weird lonely building. After adding everything I needed to color correct everything so it all fitted a bit better into the image.
In the nodes, you can see how I added the different files that I found and a part where the particles have been put into the nuke file. I had to work with keylight to remove the green screen background and Rotoscope out different parts of the buildings so it would fit the mountain. As for the particles that move together with the orca swimming through the sky. In the end, I did these particles in Maya since it is still too difficult to create this in Nuke. I created a particle trail in the exact shape I wanted it to go in the video. I added the hot air balloon video in Maya to see the right path the orca would go in.