Rooftop Beauty Shot

I have been working on a beauty shot of my rooftop scene, the reason for this are twofold, firstly I want a nice production video to show at our presentation and secondly this allows me to test and learn techniques for the final piece.

Here you can see I am still working out a few things, I needed to separate the layers of buildings in order to create a parralax effect.

Here I've seperated the layers and added lens blur, however I do not yet have the full Z depth pass needed, so it looks a little static. also note the movement of the matte in comparison to the background buildings, which is not perfect but getting there.

And finally here I have a somewhat final shot, there is still plenty of work to be done such as specularity maps, lighting and perhaps particle fog.




Here are a few images from the Z depth pass which, white areas are in focus, darker areas less in focus.