The Flight Of The Navigator
The Ships from "Flight Of The Navigator"
I'm sure you remember that awesome move "Flight Of the Navigator" from the 80's. I decided to make the ship. The overall plan for it is to have it morph into the other shape, and I'm thinking about doing the stairs too. This is a pretty fun and neat project. It includes Motion Tracking with real video footage, using shape keys, and possibly a fluid simulator. This page is showing my progress on the whole project.
Use mouse to grab and rotate with left mouse button. Middle wheel to zoom in and out. Hold D to move it around
Interactive Models
Slide Shows
This one has a beach and some clouds reflecting off its surface.
This one has the Grand Canyon, I think. Its one of the backgrounds that comes with most WIndows 7 os's.
This shows another single frame from the camera tracking scene. This one has the ship a little closer to the camera.
This one has a beach and some clouds reflecting off its surface.
Shows the ship and the tracking markings for the camera. They sync up the camera movement with the film. Notice how the ship goes down the road? Without the tracking it would be impossible to do it so well.
Showing how the camera tracking marks lined up with the ground floor, which represents the ground in the video.
These little boxes are tracking markers. They represent an area to search for a particular feature of the video. Which then gets translated to the camera giving us Motion Tracking.
Shows the ship and the tracking markings for the camera. They sync up the camera movement with the film. Notice how the ship goes down the road? Without the tracking it would be impossible to do it so well.
Transformation
To animate the transformation I will need to do a series of steps. 1st is to get the topology right. Vertex order is very important when using shape keys.
Showing the transformation at about 50%. Its already looking rough.
This is showing how I am combining a lattice, shrinkwrap and then using the shape key modifiers. This should give me the control i need to iron out dem kinks. But it will need some manual persuasion to get that final look.
To animate the transformation I will need to do a series of steps. 1st is to get the topology right. Vertex order is very important when using shape keys.