Fight Club Photogrammetry

[mrg2]

Does anyone have any idea (or more in-depth info) on how they "faked" their photorealism in the CG sequences in Fight Club using photogrammetry? I did a general web search for the phrase and learned that that method was used for creating maps and such with the help of what sounds like a pretty expensive tool. Is there any tricky way around this device or a way to do it with shaders? If any of you don't know what I'm talking about, buy the fight club DVD and check it out - it kicks ass. Thnx

[drumatix]

Hmmm... check out
http://www.photomodeler.com/intro.htm
There's a demo of this software available, the tutorials are fairly solid and the software itself seems OK. Check out the Fight Club article in Cinefx. Not sure what they used for the 'grammetry in there, though.

More posts please...

[ton]

They used REALVIZ image modeler along with Matchmover to create
the models . I have used the packaage and it requires a lot of tweaking.
At first you track the shot using point tracking. Then you draw lines and planes that
correspond to lines and planes in the footage. Then Imagemodeler starts creating
poly objects based upon the tracking and the plane, axis, line, point information you give.
Then it extracts part of the video footage and asigns it as textures to the relative polys...
Loads and loads of tweaking involved.............
www.realviz.com

arman