Bungee’s Halo 3 : ODST (Orbital Drop Ship Troopers) has a fantastic commercial done by Asylum showing a tear-jerking scene of a warrior’s return home in a casket, and his rise from nobody through boot camp and into the front-lines. Digital Arts talks to Asylum’s Rob Moggach about the project:
“Our biggest challenge with this project was time. We had just under three weeks from when we received 2K plates to finish the 2:30 film. Integration with the almost entirely hand-held, motion-blurred footage proved to be the next biggest challenge.
“In the end we used a lot of brute-force visual effects to get the job done quickly instead of devising any complex revolutionary technique. We did make use of the Flame’s 3D capabilities for doing the reflective visor replacements but the rest of the work can be attributed to just pushing hard until the image looked right.”
See the commercial after the break.
Halo 3 ODST Trailer – Extended Version from Ondablog on Vimeo.
