Thermal imaging visualisation

[notamondayfan]

Hey guys and girls,

I need to produce an animated shot simulating a thermal imaging shot of a room, and I was hoping someone might have some ideas or suggestions as to how best to achieve this?

Initial thoughts were to use AO as a base, then using masks (for hot objects) with blur and noise, to simulate the colour change in the thermal view.

But just wanted to know what others might have done.

Cheers,
Dean

[Vizioen]

This could help ya. https://www.chaosgroup.com/blog/how-...-in-v-ray-next

[fixeighted]

This should get you some or all the way there
https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/...ew=t&archive=T

[notamondayfan]

This could help ya. https://www.chaosgroup.com/blog/how-...-in-v-ray-next

This looks like my prefered option. Quite a bit of tweaking, and using lights to falsely illuminate "warm" objects seems like a good option. Cheers!

[fixeighted]

Yep that could work and save an extra plugin if you don't have it already. I guess the AE route may offer a bit of post-prod speed and tweaking ability - but whatever gets the job done

[notamondayfan]

Yep that could work and save an extra plugin if you don't have it already. I guess the AE route may offer a bit of post-prod speed and tweaking ability - but whatever gets the job done

I'm just not as handy with AE / post as I am with vray and 3D. You never know the client might hate my proposal, and end up going down the AE route!

[fixeighted]

Sure - got to use whatever is familiar and most comfortably predictable really. I'll be interested to see the results