Anything dealing with shots of the White House winds up with lots of heavy compositing and CG modeling, due to the security and secrecy. The film ‘Salt’ is no exception, and CIS Vancouver worked with several other groups to first previs the shots, and then gather the necessary live video and composite in the CG components.
Matchmove lead, Peter Hart worked with match mover, Kate Lee in tracking the plates. They created a simplified model from the point cloud and lined it up with the plates using Boujou. Earl and his team would keep adjusting the textures and lighting on the White House, rendering it out for the compositors to test in the plates. We had recently switched from Shake to Nuke, so everyone was a little new at the start of the project. It was amazing just how quickly they picked it up.
