Project: Live Free or Die Hard
VFX Studio: Digital Dimension
Images are Copyright 20th Century Fox

After the carnage caused by the traffic lights turned green, a shot was required where Bruce Willis exits his car and stares down the street at all the lights turned green. Problem was on set the filmed street had no street lights to begin with.

3d models of the street lights based off reference photos from set were created and situated within the scene roughly where they would be expected to appear in the shot. Some were suspended from large traffic poles while others were hanging from large cabling above the street. I matched the lighting to the scene from which compositing later refined it to it's finished look.

CG Traffic Lights
3D traffic lights and lamp posts / cabling