Surfider - Ride the Wave
Surfider - Ride the Wave

Apocalypse Later, Surf Now Video

A short film I did using footage shot from my GoPro surf camera.

The music is "The Whales" by The MERMEN on the album Krill Slippin'.

The effects were done in Maya, motion tracking in Mocha, and compositing in After Effects. And all on an iMac.

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Comments on "Apocalypse Later, Surf Now"

Guys check out my ...
Guys check out my channel? for? awesome GoPro vids!

Captain? Shepard ...
Captain? Shepard can surf? nice!

Why do we believe ...
Why do we believe in things that make us feel sad and scared? It? is very easy to believe in bad and negative things, but it is harder to believe in positive things in life. The truth is not what other people say, the truth is what we believe is true. Let us all be strong and believe in positive things. Do not allow negative thoughts to come in your mind.

DOPE!?
DOPE!?

@keef70 Yeah, it ...
@keef70 Yeah, it helps.? I'm using SynthEyes and exporting to Maya, so a little different for me. But I was inspired by your footage, looks great!

@keef70 Thanks dude ...
@keef70 Thanks dude!? You did amazing work.

@graphix72 ... ...
@graphix72 ...Sometimes I'd make those? fine-tuning adjustments frame by frame. Total pain in the ass but it worked out for the most part. Hope that answers your question.

@graphix72 ...After ...
@graphix72 ...After tracking I would copy and paste the tracking information into a null created in After Effects (turning off everything but rotation? and translation), then I'd make that null the parent of whatever effect I wanted to match to the footage. Sometimes the track would still be a little off so I would create a master control null to parent to the regular null that I would either do additional tracking with in AE or just make fine-tuning adjustments by hand...

@graphix72 Someone ...
@graphix72 Someone asked me a similar question a while ago, this is what I told him- Sometimes I would track a cloud or a rock+palm tree. But most of the time there was a pretty solid horizon line created by the incoming waves that I could latch on? to. Since most of the scenes are long shots I didn't? have to do any 3d tracking, just a lot of trial and error 2d tracking of the wave's edge...

What did you track ...
What did you track off of? Looks like you've got mostly water and sky, which is quite foggy, and a few glimpses of land. To me it looks like untrackable footage. Cannot track? off water because it changes constantly, cannot track off foggy sky. How did you ever set up enough trackers to motion track so beautifully? Please reply, I am trying to camera track similar footage, and don't know what to set my trackers off of. Thanks in advance.

wow that was pretty ...
wow that was pretty amazing!! The? motion tracking must have been so long tho

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@thederickgarcia ...
@thederickgarcia Is very interesting Japanese have criticized without looking at the? description embarrassed · · Please do not expose the shame of Japan in a place like this There may be a mistake because English is not good.

@sunakuzira9? what ...
@sunakuzira9? what does this mean in english?

f**k APOCALYPSE!!! ...
f**k APOCALYPSE!!!!? JUST SURF!

There's? something ...
There's? something so amazing about this...

I had a dream about ...
I had a dream about this.. Buildings getting destroyed on the? background but the waves were so nice ^^

I'm producing a ...
I'm producing a commercial with a? post-apocalyptic theme. I hear you also work in advertising? I was wondering if you would be interested in doing some of the CGI for this commercial, this clip is very much like what we had in mind and you could probably mostly transfer what's already there. It'd all be very straight forward, no big deal, but could be cool. I sent you a direct message, please reply....? Best, M

@SloveniaHardCore91 ...
@SloveniaHardCore91 The author explained earlier in the comments that the? flying ships are people escaping from what as you can see is an impending astroid strike. The structures out in the water are oil platforms. There is nothing alien about this video other than the technology used by the humans being possibly alien.

I totally agree? ...
I totally agree? with the top comments!

Good effects,but ...
Good effects,but you could? try to put in less generic alien stuff :D

Just what I would ...
Just what I would be doing, same in? hurricanes! Had a ron-jon shirt with the Space shuttle in the background that always felt post-apocalyptic. Cool video.

That is? just very ...
That is? just very strange....

About 2 minutes? in ...
About 2 minutes? in I noticed people were surfing.

does the backroung ...
does the backroung is? from a movie?

u sure are? the ...
u sure are? the lamest surfer ever...

cool.....? man
cool.....? man

whoo? hoo... awesome
whoo? hoo... awesome

I? love it!
I? love it!


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