so the script says something like…. the mustang hits the speeding semi truck head on… it desintegrates… the car and Caleb (the actor) go through the truck… and they all “re-assemble themselves” at the back of the truck, and lands on the road… and because of all this, the semi truck looses some of its load… !!!

Ok so first… we need to design the shot… !!

(insert storyboards here)

when we shoot driving scenes or car chases we often use a camera truck like this one… which we did for this scene…

meanwhile, we proceeded to build the cg version of the Mustang and of the truck,… One of the tricky parts here was to decide in advance how the car would desintegrate, how many (and which parts) would fly through and around the truck… Also, when we build CG versions of cars and trucks, we have to make sure that the textures, paint, dirt etc of the CG cars and trucks perfectly match the real ones because we often cut from the real ones to the CG ones… so, if they don’t match, well… you know… we get fired !

we the proceeded with all the green screen segments… those were all shot in studio over green screen with ext light effects and massive wind machines

and finally, when composite all the elements together, you get a pretty cool crash scene !…