I just saw this clip on Twitter, and it kinda blew my mind, because it's a relatively chaotic motion captured perfectly. How do you think they filmed it? Do you think it's a completely CGI shot?
I'm going to take a guess and say that it's not CGI at all, just tracked very precisely and cropped. Since the rolling die will always have a shape of a circle, you need to track just the circle. Also you can see the background change somewhat as it travels across the surface (this could be of course simulated too). In theory, you would place a top-down camera above a desk, record the entire desk, roll the die, then track it and crop it.
If it is CGI, it's very good.
If it is CGI, it's very good.
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^This. Film the entire table with a high res camera, and use software to track and crop only the dice. It's even probably easier to do than a realistic looking CGI.
@alyx @js @LukeAlmighty yup, the dice roll might look chaotic but it's the ONLY thing moving on a dark, solid color background. It probably wouldn't even need that much tweaking after the automated motion tracking.