• Final Shot

    Final Shot

  • Scene geometry from LiDAR scan

    Scene geometry from LiDAR scan

  • Envirocam virtual background plate

    Envirocam virtual background plate

  • Final Shot

    Final Shot

  • Scene geometry from LiDAR scan

    Scene geometry from LiDAR scan

  • Envirocam virtual background plate

    Envirocam virtual background plate

  • Final Shot

    Final Shot

  • Scene geometry from LiDAR scan

    Scene geometry from LiDAR scan

  • Envirocam virtual background plate

    Envirocam virtual background plate

Man of Steel (2013)

MPC

Visual Effects

Director: Zack Snyder

Compositing Technical Direction + Envirocam Technical Direction.

The Envirocam pipeline was developed for this show to create virtual background plates of the shooting location. 360 degree tiled images nodally captured provided source photography.

A virtual environment in Nuke was rebuilt from this on-set photography projected on to geometry from on-location Lidar scans. This allowed synthetic camera moves in any direction needed to seamlessly splice together with real shots once composited.