Client: Kabar
Project Type: Kabar Knives
Year: 2010
Role: Lead Nuke Compositor
Keywords: kabar, knives, vfx, compositing, 3d, nuke, tattoo

The Kabar campaign was a set of 3 commercials that I worked on while freelancing for director Joshua Frankel at Omega Darling. The fellows there created a method of projecting tracking markers onto talent and then by taking 180 degrees in photos they were able to generate a 3d mesh that matched the talent’s biometric figure.
The 3d geo was then animated in Maya to bring the muscles to life. The unwrapped UV was brought into Nuke and then reprojected back onto the the animated fbx sequence all in Nuke. This allowed us to create a natural depth of field and well as realistic tattoo features and tweak up until the end without going back through Maya for a final render.