My role on this project involved some modelling, creation of digi-doubles, CAD cleanup and UVing. The idea was that we would see the Lego cars switch from the real world cars they represented. However unlike the Ferrari, McLaren and Jaguar, the dragster and the monster truck didn't represent existing cars, so we had to build some realistic cars that looked like the Lego ones. One of my tasks was to work on the "realistic" interpretation of the Lego dragster. Initially a top fuel dragster had been bought from Turbosquid, but the proportions and features needed more work to match to the Lego version. So I modified the shape and form of the model to bring it more in line with the Lego car, adding further details too. I also modeled a bread bin which we see one of the cars start up inside and drive out of, which had to match a real bread bin they had used on set.
Similar to the work I had done on the Ikea Christmas Ads, I created the digi-doubles for the drivers by projecting a human model onto photogrammetry using Wrap3. This time there was a different challenge to overcome, the photogrammetry was less noisy, but it came in multiple parts. For example a head scan, a full body scan. So I got to learn more about the workflow in Wrap3 to get the details from multiple scans into one output model.
The biggest task was to clean up the CAD models for the McLaren and the Ferrari, as well as UVing them so that we could get some nice carbon fiber patterns on the relevant pieces.
Read more here on the Framestore website.
