With all the other vfx shots finished and only color grading to go, the director began to regret scrapping the van shot. He left behind a few hundred digital photos and a couple of screenshots of the van in a 3D app, but no project files. But, as happens so often with short films, the original vfx guy dropped out and disappeared. At the time of the shoot, a vfx guy had taken loads of photos of the real van and intended to do the shot via photogrammetry. TheyвЂ™d filmed the plate with a reference vehicle, always intending to render a digital van. The shot was a very simple pan of a van driving past, but for whatever reason the real van wasnвЂ™t available. The van shot was not in the original edit as it had been deemed too hard. I was really surprised at how well the result worked, especially as I hadnвЂ™t done much work by myself. I did the bulk of the work in an initial two week period, and continued to refine and tweak a few shots over the next few months. IвЂ™d agreed to a capped budget as long as the deadline was flexible, so I could experiment in my own time without delivery pressure.

I jumped at the opportunity to do more vfx work, as so many After Effects jobs are motion graphics. The edit had been locked off, and there were roughly 30 shots that needed some work вЂ“ some very simple, others more complex.

B&a: What was the background to this van shot you worked on? Where is it from, and what was your brief for the shot?Д¬hris Zwar: Roughly a year ago a friend of mine asked if IвЂ™d be interested in doing some vfx shots for a short film вЂ“ heвЂ™d been approached but was too busy.

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