Digital Motion in Air

This series of images freezes a moment of time in each dancer's aerial maneuver, and turns their movements into static sculptures that represents their motion and style. Original shots were stock photography and stylized to fit within the scene, sculptures and sets created entirely CGI.

This amazing work was done by Mike Campau

Process

cgi setup for ballet dancer scene

Raw Render output

stock photo isolated and dropped into scene

Basic cleanup and masking elements with photography

Final tone and color corrections with additional shadows added.