OVERHEAD SHOT
The frame on top is from the final composite. The bottom is a screen capture of my motion tracking in Blender. You can see the original shot as the source of the motion track. Once tracked, I painted out the original aircraft and added the new H-125.
TRANSIT SHOT
The transit shot was completely manufactured. This wasn't a replacement like many of the others. I constructed and animated this shot completely in Blender. The only thing that technically isn't CGI is the background plate.
DIPPING SHOT
I'm not gonna lie friends, this was hard. First I tracked the background. There was a ton motion blur, which made it difficult to keep good common markers in the frame. Once I had a good track on the camera's motion, I then tracked the helicopter's motion relative the tracked camera. Armed with a good track, I then went into After Effects and painted out the original helicopter. Compositing in the new CGI helicopter was the easy part.😊
QUICK TURN
This little quick-turn shot was going to be a track and replace, but I ended up just mimicking the motion and building the 3D shot from scratch.
ROOFTOP
This was another instance where there wasn't a good option to track and replace, so I just threw together a quick city that matches the other shots closely enough and went with it!
DROP OFF
The really tricky part about this one was actually the roto on the dudes!
PICK UP
Similar to the drop off shot, this was actually a really simple scene to light and animate. The really hard part was rotoscoping the dudes. We were working with client-provided footage that was shot several years ago. Since the source wasn't the highest quality we had to do some AI upres and compression removal. That can make roto tricky because AI sometimes fills in the blanks in "interesting" ways.