“Divergent – behind the ‘mirror room'” by Burger
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Title:
- Divergent - behind the 'mirror room'
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Length:
- 2:00
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Method Studios
- Summit Entertainment
Description:
Based on the popular novel of the same name by Veronica Roth, Divergent tells the tale of a world spit into factions based on human virtues. Method Studios was lead VFX vendor on the film and their most complex sequence takes place in a room seemingly made of mirrors, where Shailene Woodley’s character Tris takes an aptitude test. As Tris walks towards a mirrored wall she notices something is not quite right. As she slowly turns, more and more walls are revealed, all of them mirrored and causing hundreds of her reflections to populate into the distance. The photorealism of the Mirror Room sequence was achieved by capturing as many close reflections as possible on film. This was accomplished by setting up six Alexa cameras on a greenscreen stage and tiling the resulting imagery onto cards reflected into the scene. Full CG rotomation of Tris was required for the distant reflections which allowed more complexity to the lighting design.
