McLaren Special Operations’ marketing department commissioned us to produce a number of CGI car images for their car brochure. The animation below shows the the work that goes into creating a CGI car image for a brochure.
We believe a CGI visual should tell a story, and this one captures the moment when a young boy becomes fascinated by cars, as he sees the special edition McLaren MSO 650S.
After discussion and signing-off the storyboard content of the shot, we arranged the photo shoot to take place in London. Following a scout of suitable locations, one in Holborn was decided on and the shoot was set up.
On the day, the models were positioned and talked through their poses, while the photographer set up the equipment. A number of shots were taken to get the composition right, using VRED to position a cgi car and place the models on the trial back plates, and we then waited for appropriate natural lighting.
British weather being what it is, it soon became clear that we were going to have to re-work the photos in post production to replicate the requisite sunny day look.
We shot the models with backplate and support material for the lighting and reflections of the CG car and then reviewed all of the content before heading off to our retouching suite.
The following movie shows the build up of the CGI car image through removal of unwanted elements in the scene, added dappled lighting and adjusted shadows to give the image the warm sunny afternoon appearance.
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