Topic: Submarine Effect

I have been thinking about doing a short film that would have submarines in it. However I don't really know how to get an underwater look. Does anyone have any tips?

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Re: Submarine Effect

I would say, green screen or cgi the submarine exterior, then just make a set for the interior of the submarine.

Re: Submarine Effect

Here is a great video on that subject.

http://tinyurl.com/krwj4ek
http://tinyurl.com/kvxr6umhttp://tinyurl.com/kxofj4mhttp://tinyurl.com/k5fw3syhttp://tinyurl.com/m4rv8tf

Re: Submarine Effect

Thanks for the tips, but I was looking for more of a "Green Screen Model" effect. Does anyone know how to layer something over the footage to add the look of under water?

RedBrick1/LegoTrain587 | EXPANSE | A Brickfilm

Re: Submarine Effect

You have to create the overlay effect with lights and a gobo. Now, if you have enough lights, and a gobo, and an extensive lighting set-up, then you can produce this effect in shot. But I would highly recommend doing this in post-prod, because of the flexibility. It's not hard to create an underwater look for actual footage in After Effects or Blender.

http://tinyurl.com/krwj4ek
http://tinyurl.com/kvxr6umhttp://tinyurl.com/kxofj4mhttp://tinyurl.com/k5fw3syhttp://tinyurl.com/m4rv8tf

Re: Submarine Effect

it depends how deep you want the sub to look.

if its shallow water then you might see some of the "caustics" which look like rippling light beams moving across the bottom of a swimming pool. Then do those using an effects package.

If the sub is in much deeper water, then you don't see the caustics. What you do see, is a softness and a very shallow depth of field due to dark conditions and particles in the water. You will have very diffuse light coming only from above. On the film "The Abyss" this was achieved by filming the model in a dark studio with lights above, and a few seconds before rolling the camera, they released some smoke to give a soft diffuse particle look.

Re: Submarine Effect

There is a Video Copilot tutorial on the subject of submarines.
However, it focuses mostly on the exterior, and the depth charge. mini/bigsmile

http://i.imgur.com/lZUQ9.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/9CQIM.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/YZLtR.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/ICcjc.png

Re: Submarine Effect

Yeah, this tutorial here covered it pretty nicely for me, it gives the basic gist of setting up an underwater scene.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/BGanimations/Signatures/final_400x100.png

Re: Submarine Effect

Is that what you used in your signature?

http://i.imgur.com/lZUQ9.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/9CQIM.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/YZLtR.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/ICcjc.png

Re: Submarine Effect

Yes, actually, that's how I made the underwater effect I did in my signature. I changed some of the stuff to make it fit my scene better, but yeah, that's how I figured out how to do underwater scenes.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/BGanimations/Signatures/final_400x100.png

Re: Submarine Effect

After effects will do it great.

http://www.usa.canon.com/assets/app/images/callouts/cameras/callout_hdvideo_091511.jpg    http://www.usa.canon.com/assets/app/images/callouts/cameras/cdlc_148_rt.jpg

Re: Submarine Effect

Juggernaut Pictures wrote:

Here is a great video on that subject.

Google underwater images.