The fxphd silver car shot. Our PFTrack prof Victor Wolanksky calls it the most famous scene at fxphd. So it’s only appropriate that he’s using the shot as a guest lecturer for our advanced Flame course in a special two parter ending this week at fxphd. So you’ve seen the shot before? These classes just show how much you can make a shot your own….

In our previous PFTrack course, Victor showed how to accurately track the car and the scene for use in other applications. For the flame classes this term, he brought in the camera move and the tracked 3D car object in order to project textures such as the running stripes onto the car. He showed some nice workarounds for the fact that projectors also project onto the back of 3D objects. Of course, you don’t want to be doing photoreal rendering of 3D objects in flame’s Action, so the classes included 3DSMax renders (with associated passes) of an fxphd billboard, cones, concrete barriers, and car add-ons such as a new bumper, spoiler, and air intakes. They’re fun classes — thanks to Victor for contributing to the flame course.