Streets of LA recreated with Enwaii in Mercedes Surfaces
In the Mercedes Surfaces commercial directed by Tarsem, Roger Federer is driving a Mercedes Benz M Class through different landscapes. Each transition from one place to other is done when Federer changes the driving setup of the car and these transitions were achieved thanks to special effects created by Eight VFX..
The studio had to recreate streets of LA to rotate buildings and jump from the forest to the city and vice versa.
Mathias Jourdes modeled the buildings with Enwaii using photogrammetry techniques. This choice enabled Eight VFX to start the creation of the assets before receiving the images from the LA sequence.
Eight VFX decided to take the bracketed photos using a Promote Control instead of the regular AEB setup of the camera. So they asked Banzai Pipeline Ltd engineers to add support of the Promote in Enwashot during the automated HDR sorting process. This feature is now part of Enwaii which automatically sorts brackets generated by AEB setup, Promote Control or any other external device piloting the camera.
Images courtesy of Eight VFX