Duke Digital comissioned me to make 10 movies for Nissan, based on storyboards they had drawn up, exploring the various aspects of the new Nissan Murano and Qashqai cars (Click here to see movies on the Nissan site.).
Murano ‘Ambience’: One of the main problems in making these movies was getting assets, and making films out of the assets we had. The photography was really nice though, so I separated the pictures into layers, and filled in behind the front layers a bit, so i could then move the camera through 3D space in After Effects, to give an effect of floating through the car, with the focus blurring out to give the illusion of depth.
Murano ‘Intelligence’: A guy at Duke went down to Nissan HQ to play around with the car and film the TV display in the car. I smoothed out the footage, and comped it with the photography in After Effects and slowly panned the camera around.
Murano ‘Interior’: Similar effects seen in the ‘ambience’ movie. On all the movies I used the 3D lighting in After Effects to bring some subtle movement to the photography.
Murano ‘Safety’: This features a 3D swoosh which flies through the chassis - I used Trapcode’s Particular plug-in for After Effects to get the effect.
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