Aside from our main post: I thought it would be cool to include some stills for how we made the Car films for YouTube Show & Tell. We tried to accomplish everything in camera. We looked to references like: the trolley from mr.rodgers, train set dioramas, and car commercial cues that didn’t benefit from cg.

We needed to solve how the car would move. Radio control and magnets were tossed around, but we envisioned having many takes, and needed to control the set a bit better. We arrived at a slot track, driven by a HO gauge train sitting beneath the road:

We needed enough track to drive seamlessly through our environment in one take. We constructed a giant parallel track system, one for the car, and one for the camera:

The car itself was a die-cast dodge omni, with gradients for windows, and some rough wireframe printouts that we cut out and printed back onto the car:

Using a train throttle and smooth dolly rig, we were able to start constructing our sets around the train tracks. Here is a snap showing film 2, and the lush High Def environment.

Huge props go to devilfish, for constructing and art directing the miniature worlds we sent car through, it was no small feat in the time we had.

See the films here.