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Spot Focus : Indy 500 - 2009 Opening Sequence - Part 2
Oldenburg and the Mantra team had to navigate several obstacles in order to complete this year’s Indy 500 opening tease. Oldenburg worked closely with the director of the piece, Lukas Ettlin, flying to Indianapolis for pre-production to determine the locations, the cars that would be used as well as which shots would require green screen work. However, plans quickly changed when it rained during both scheduled days of filming. Instead, the cars were filmed stationary under a small covered section of the track, and Oldenburg was tasked with replacing the entire environment in post-production. Many shots were also filmed using a smaller interior track that is home to Formula One racing, rebuilding the entire Indy 500 track digitally using Autodesk Flame, replacing the walls, sky and grass in all shots. Oldenburg also color corrected the tease in Flame, giving certain eras a sepia tone and dusting the piece to match archive footage with the re-created shots.
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For one of the signature moments in the opening tease, Oldenburg relied on his Mantra colleagues in Shanghai, China to create a deconstruction of the iconic Indy 500 Pagoda control tower. The deconstruction starts the same time that the teaser begins to go back through time, signaling a return to the beginning of Indy history when the Pagoda had not yet been built. When in Indianapolis, Oldenburg took photos from every angle of the current Pagoda, turning them over to the Mantra Shanghai team to re-build the Pagoda in 3D with Autodesk Maya. Mantra Shanghai then reversed the entire process, using a time lapse effect to deconstruct the Pagoda, removing walls and windows piece by piece to return the track to its original form in 1909. Mantra Design created all other special effects work with Flame, and also worked to incorporate time-saving features, using camera tricks to cut costs and ensure the piece would be budget-conscious.
“This piece incorporates a lot of compositing, and we pushed Flame to its full potential,” says Oldenburg. “We were really making an entire track, putting together the trees, changing the numbers on the cars and compositing the photographers and the crowd. We took shots done using a green screen and then erased and replaced the environment around the cars to design a new world. The recreation work was absolutely a thrill for myself and the Mantra team.”
Oldenburg and the Mantra team had to navigate several obstacles in order to complete this year’s Indy 500 opening tease. Oldenburg worked closely with the director of the piece, Lukas Ettlin, flying to Indianapolis for pre-production to determine the locations, the cars that would be used as well as which shots would require green screen work. However, plans quickly changed when it rained during both scheduled days of filming. Instead, the cars were filmed stationary under a small covered section of the track, and Oldenburg was tasked with replacing the entire environment in post-production. Many shots were also filmed using a smaller interior track that is home to Formula One racing, rebuilding the entire Indy 500 track digitally using Autodesk Flame, replacing the walls, sky and grass in all shots. Oldenburg also color corrected the tease in Flame, giving certain eras a sepia tone and dusting the piece to match archive footage with the re-created shots.
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For one of the signature moments in the opening tease, Oldenburg relied on his Mantra colleagues in Shanghai, China to create a deconstruction of the iconic Indy 500 Pagoda control tower. The deconstruction starts the same time that the teaser begins to go back through time, signaling a return to the beginning of Indy history when the Pagoda had not yet been built. When in Indianapolis, Oldenburg took photos from every angle of the current Pagoda, turning them over to the Mantra Shanghai team to re-build the Pagoda in 3D with Autodesk Maya. Mantra Shanghai then reversed the entire process, using a time lapse effect to deconstruct the Pagoda, removing walls and windows piece by piece to return the track to its original form in 1909. Mantra Design created all other special effects work with Flame, and also worked to incorporate time-saving features, using camera tricks to cut costs and ensure the piece would be budget-conscious.
“This piece incorporates a lot of compositing, and we pushed Flame to its full potential,” says Oldenburg. “We were really making an entire track, putting together the trees, changing the numbers on the cars and compositing the photographers and the crowd. We took shots done using a green screen and then erased and replaced the environment around the cars to design a new world. The recreation work was absolutely a thrill for myself and the Mantra team.”
Editing for the piece was done externally, with narration and writing by Greg Jennings. Laurel Heisman served as Mantra’s producer, with Chris Pfeiffer as producer/director on the ESPN on ABC team.
