You really want to go fullscreen for this one buddy.

Got back to London last week and been working mad ever since. Me and the fine chaps over at Mainframe has been working on these VFX shots for The Courteeners upcoming video You overdid it doll. I worked on the seven shots where she starts to crack and fall apart. All shots but one were tracked in Nuke. The last shot had an insane amount of almost unnoticeable jitter. And after spending most of last sunday trying just about everything to get a track that would stick, I turned to Mocha to do a planar tracking and imported the tracking data in nuke. Since Mocha for After effects not exports data to Nuke (you need the full license) I had to do a few work arounds but it ended up working quite nice.

Since she's twisting and bending like a new born toddler I had to manually deform all cracks to follow her skin and muscle movement. This was obviously the most time consuming part. Unfortunately they weren't able to place tracking markers on her face and body while shooting, so getting a realistic feel was somewhat of a guessing game most of the time. But all the more fun and I sing my praise to Nuke's different warps. I rendered some particle simulations in Maya and had them falling of her. They're not that easily spotted in all shots but it adds a subtle movement and feeling of her actually falling apart that sort of helps to sell the shot. Finally I added some slight camera movements to make it feel more dramatic and not as static. I simply got a track of the jitter in the original footage and mapped the movement on a camera slowly moving towards her.

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Director: Dave Edwards

3D simulations: Arvid Niklasson

Nuke Compositor: Kalle Peterson

AE Compositor: Lee Walker