Alien UFO Spaceship - SynthEyes and Lightwave VFX Test

UFO Alien Space Craft VFX test of combining a rendered 3D object with live action using SynthEyes for Motion Tracking and Match Moving. While compositing I also tried to color correct the ship to the live video. This still needs work... You can tell by the "Acting" my daughter hates when I ask her to this this stuff.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Alien
• UFO
• Motion
• Tracking
• Match
• Moving
• 3D
• Visual
• Effects
• VFX
• Spaceship
• SynthEyes
• compositing
• CS4
• AE
• Premier
• Lightwave

[orlanduce]

how did u track it out in Lightwave?

[kbsteve]

@orlanduce SynthEyes outputs a LW Scene file with the tracking points and camera movement assigned to a camera in the scene. Use the tracking points as a reference for your object to be rendered and animate as needed.

I cheated on the output. I did the render with the source video as the backdrop in LW. Then I masked the tree in AE with KeyLight.

[shotrag]

Pretty sweet. How did you mask the tree, in the ending, out, or was the tree CG?

[kbsteve]

@shotrag - I used KeyLight in AE. A lot of tweaking with the settings and sitll not as good as I wanted.

[spymasterwade]

how do u get syntheye for free

[kbsteve]

@spymasterwade - I didn't. I paid for it, and the upgrage to the latest version. I love the program and it is worth the investment.

[JoeyHernandez92]

LOL nice editing

[F1lmspoofs]

poor acting but pretty good editing

[CATB0XFILMS]

@kbsteve You also could have used the videocopilot sky replacement method and used a luma matte. It looked pretty good to me anyway though. Good job!

[sabadosconvictor]

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[WierdmanProductions]

next time get a realistic space ship and it'll look really cool