A short video clip showing the proposed Bressay Bridge as it would appear as a part of the landscape.

The Shetland Islands Council has plans to construct a 800m bridge to link the island of Bressay to the Shetland mainland in the near future.

This clip was produced to give a true photo-realistic view of the bridge as it would look on site, using advanced compositing methods to match a bridge model to a moving video clip of Bressay sound.

A video sequence was filmed on site, positioned at a suitable location to give a good view of the bridge if it were already there.

A 3D model of the bridge was constructed based on the CAD plans of the structure and surfacing details added.

A matchmoving operation was carried out to analyze the motion of the camera in 3D and provide a match to a virtual camera opperating in the £d animation program.

By locating the 3D model at the correct location the images of the bridge produced then matched the properties of the video.

Further work was carried out in post production to better match the lighting, colour ranges and "look" of the 3d elements to the original video and to blend the parts together to a convincing whole.


This clip gives an idea of some of the posibilites for matching video shots of the existing, with 3D and composites of the proposed to give a true impression of the finished structure.