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Armageddon - Der Einschlag  |
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1x90min (2x45min)
HDTV 1080p
16:9 |
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Stefan Schneider
Elektrofilm Post-Produktion
Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion GmbH
Uwe Kersken
ZDF, France2, Discovery Channel |
© 2007 Elektrofilm / ZDF
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ARMAGEDDON - DER EINSCHLAG begins with a disaster: The united mission of the national space agencies to bring the asteroid off a collision course with Earth has failed.
65 million years ago, a rock from space 10 kilometers in diameter changed our planet forever. It hit the Gulf of Mexico and left a crater of 180 kilometers in size. 75 percent of all animal life became extinct, the Dinosaurs being one of them. For Decades the planet changed into a cold desert. What if this ancient disaster would strike again? Would mankind have a chance of survival?
The docufiction "Armageddon - Der Einschlag" tells this story like it hasn't been seen yet - scientifically correct and yet very thrilling. |
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For this TV docufiction I was hired by post house Elektrofilm and worked on a whole bunch of different shots. As a compositor, I did several shots of an abandoned New York City getting hit by a tsunami. As a 3d artist I was responsible for the 3d model of lower Manhattan, the texture work, lighting and rendering. I combined this with layers from a Realflow simulation of a wave hitting the lowres city model and composited the final shot. Most of the challenges in shots containing water was the fact that not a single element of real water was shot specifically for the project. We used a lot of stock footage and previously recorded material to fill the shots.
Other shots I worked on were a huge wave hitting an offshore windpark, the impact crater hellscape in the Mexican desert and some shots requiring a resettlement of a village to a tropical setting, including artificial flora. Compositing was done mostly in Eyeon Fusion. 3D stuff was done with Autodesk Maya.
Note: New York shots featuring normal weather are not in the movie. They are comp tests made by me to see how the model looks under normal lighting conditions. |
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1 Final NY model, NY render layers
2 depth layer, finished shots |
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