Elijah Flockhart WW2 Dogfight

I created a Scene of a World War 2 dog fight in the air. I was inspired by old war films like Battle for Britain and really wanted to test my skills.

The first part of the project was animating the planes in Blender and animated a plane breaking apart using a physics system.

The next step was starting the compositing process in Nuke. 

After some initial color grading and integration, the layers were changed to 3D, tracking a camera to the cockpit to match the movement. And then masking the cockpit footage.

After more integration and compositing. Camera shake was added, some defocus, lens distortion and as a final step camera grain was added. Here was the final node tree:

Just for fun this was the first slap comp of my project and I am proud of how it has developed from start to finish.

Thank you for looking at my work.