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The summer of 1996 movie Alaska called
for a sequence where a plane is caught in some unexpected stormy weather
and is driven into the side of a mountain. Most of the shots for the sequence
were realized by skilled pilots with in flight photography. A shot near
the end of the sequence called for a view from inside of the cockpit showing
clouds which open up to reveal the side of the mountain.
The film's editor, Rob Kobrin, contacted VisionArt with an element of a plane flying at the mountain. We then tracked the movement of the camera though that plate and added in the computer generated clouds you see composited together on the left. The clouds were carefully generated to match the surrounding footage of the real stormy environment and layered into the plate to reveal at the right moment. The result was a photorealistic full screen CG stormy environment which allowed the director to create an otherwise impossible shot.
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