This was a school assignment to integrate a 3D object into a handheld video.
The process:
- Shoot a handheld video using a camera
- Capture necessary lighting information to create the HDRI (take multiple 360 photos of different exposures with Ricoh Theta, combine the photos in Adobe Photoshop to an EXR)
- Track the footage in Nuke
- Import camera information to Maya
- Light the scene (the chess pieces) using the HDRI
- Render the objects and objects' shadows separately (in some cases, specular and reflection as well, but it is not used here)
- Composite and colour grade in Nuke
Many thanks to Assoc Prof Benjamin Seide (School of Art, Design and Media) for his guidance on this project.
