Sunday 13 December 2009

How we did it?.........Happy Christmas

2009 is coming to a end, and here at the White Balance we wanted to show you how we do what we do! We have broken down the stages we went through to create our 2009 Christmas Card! Enjoy, and we welcome your comments.


When brain storming ideas for this years christmas card we saw this image of a standard light bulb. We kept coming back to the bulbs simplistic form and thought wouldn't it be nice if we could have the shape of a christmas tree glowing inside the bulb! using 3d and post production its possible ...







Stage 01.
First we create the 3D Environment, and model the details on the bulbs.



Stage 02.
Render a Ambient Occlusion Pass. We use this to add realistic grounding in Post Production.







Stage 03.
Next step Texture and light it up! and press Render (sounds so simple doesn't it!) 



Stage 05.
Post Production - We colour grade and add that extra Sparkle.



Stage 06.
Render a depth of field pass. We use this as a mask when we blur the image. This gives the illusion of a Macro lens camera.


Stage 07.
Using the depth of field mask we blur the final image.



Stage 08.
Finally a Happy Christmas and we are done :-)











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