Hero car on a grungy city street
A 4-second orbit-and-push around a sun-faded orange muscle coupe in a daytime back-street. Same idea as the other experiment: a grey 3D previs in Nuke carries the camera move, AI carries the look.
Stage 1 - block it out in 3D
A boxy car proxy, a street with buildings and props, a daytime light rig, and an orbit-plus-push camera are blocked out in Nuke and rendered to a short grey driving clip.
Stage 2 - render it with AI
A GPT Image 2 node repaints a blockout frame into a rendered plate that locks the car look, color, and grime. A Seedance 2.0 node then restyles the whole clip: the driving video carries the camera and motion, the style frame carries the look.
Step by step
- 01
Block out the orbit and push
A boxy car proxy, buildings and props, a daytime light rig, and one orbit-plus-push camera. Nuke renders it to a short grey clip. Note how little geometry this needs: the proxy only has to be the right size and in the right place, because nothing in the final image comes from its surface.
- 02
Repaint one frame into the plate that sets the rules
A single blockout frame becomes a finished still: the car's colour, its grime, the wall behind it, the light. Everything the shot will look like is decided in this one image, which is why it is worth iterating here rather than on the video. A still is cheap to redo; a video is not.
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Repaint this previs frame as a photoreal plate: late-1960s burnt-orange fastback muscle coupe (#B5552A), oxidized matte clearcoat, road grime and rust; grungy daytime industrial back-street, soot-stained brick, wet asphalt, dumpster; ARRI Alexa Mini LF, 35mm Cooke S4 T2.0, Kodak Vision3 250D.
The style frame that locks the look. - 03
Restyle the clip, with the blockout holding the camera
The painted still goes to First frame and the grey orbit goes to the Reference video input. The driving video carries camera and motion, the style frame carries the look. Because the camera was locked in step one, what comes back lands on the move you designed instead of a move the model invented.
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Re-render the orbit as a photoreal cinematic shot: the driving video carries the camera and motion, the style frame carries the look. Preserve timing; muted desaturated grade with the orange car the single saturated hero.
How it was wired
Wired in Nuke as: the painted style frame to First frame, the blockout orbit to the Reference video input, 4 seconds, 720p.