You know, just last night when the CocaCola ad came on, i looked at my wife, she looked at me, and we both laughed and simultaneously said, "how can you do that in Vegas?". This is a perpetually asked question in here.

One thing many people fail to take into account is budget. CocaCola (and their advertising agency) spent probably hundreds of thousands of dollars producing each ad. They hired talented graphic artists, animators, computer graphic experts, and purchased much expensive software. Many hours were spent motion tracking, setting keyframes, lighting, rendering, revising, rerendering. All this is on top of having a "film" crew obtain excellent source video to begin with.

So, yes, you can do this in Vegas. You can take the source video and the bubbles created elswhere, and combine them in Vegas. Vegas simply is not and animation program.

Using a lot of time and creativity and some good plugin software, you might be able to come up with something that sort of slightly resembles some of the effects of the bubbles. Or, you can accept the fact that a lot of the nifty things we see on TV and at the movies are beyond our reach in terms of time and money. If you really want to make effects like that, go work for a company that produces them.

I think that bubble effect is a variation of a default Combustion particle effect.

Good answer!

You're right, of course. It's not an animation program and Coke has millions of dollars to spend to achieve that effect.

But, if you or anyone else knows of add ons, plug ins or other software that can make something resembling those kinds of effects that would be helpful too.

Paul

A photorealistic bubble would have to be one of the holy grails of CGI, even with the best CGI software it's no mean feat to get a bubble to look 100% real.

Take a look at a bubble. just as a 3D object to create and animate it is not that simple, it changes shape and it moves in all 3 dimensions. That's the easy part. Being a very thin sphere with a liquid / gas interface it reflects, deffracts and diffuses light and that effect also changes quickly over time.

And in the end it's not that hard to do as a practical effect, buy an ant farm, fill it with the right liquid and bubble air from a cheap aquarium pump through it. Put this in front of the lens and you've got the job done. And it's more fun playing with real things, no ones impressed these days when you say you did it with a computer, show em how you rigged up the real deal and that blows em away.

Bob.

I haven't seen the Coke commercial, but it sounds like any particle generator would do the do.
I use Lightwave for 3D particles and Partical Illusion 3 for the rest (www.wondertouch.com).
I bring PI3 up a lot, I know... so... no... I don't work for them in any way. Only own the product.

Please!!!!!!!!!!!! share with me that video...I have not seen it yet, I am from south america!!. Thank you, very much.