Swamp People Commercial...

simon le bon

Hi Kristoff,

No doubt that this is a child effect coming from Matrix's "Bullet Time" effect.

[flash=500,280:2kztbd62]http://www.youtube.com/v/WhxbYTMNMxo[/flash:2kztbd62]

[flash=500,280:2kztbd62]http://www.youtube.com/v/cZh787eKeEw[/flash:2kztbd62]

About 120 cameras had been necessary for this sequence..

This technique exploits the ancient and well known "greenscreen"

[flash=500,280:2kztbd62]http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xbj1fg[/flash:2kztbd62]

what do you think about this another experiment:!!

[flash=500,280:2kztbd62]http://www.youtube.com/v/C5yhxqkJiAQ[/flash:2kztbd62]

explained:

[flash=500,280:2kztbd62]http://www.youtube.com/v/5wBZuxeApe0[/flash:2kztbd62]

simon

mitcorb

Probably skycam on cables. Or, a camera mounted on a moving frame.
Maybe nanocam on trained dragonfly.
None of the above.

mitcorb

Heh. I came back to mention the multicamera and Monsieur LeBon got me.

numbthumb

Well, Monsieur LeBon is probably the most competent cameraman around here

dale

So, You mean to tell me that movies are fake.... Is nothing sacred?
(Really, cool stuff to see Simon)

Krisidious

yes, I realize a full circle was never made but they describe it in the Matrix as 360 degree cameras...

but I wonder how they would set up these cameras in the swamp?

TIG

@krisidious said:

yes, I realize a full circle was never made but they describe it in the Matrix as 360 degree cameras...

but I wonder how they would set up these cameras in the swamp?
What swamp ?

Krisidious

Tig are you saying that's all fake?

TIG

@krisidious said:

Tig are you saying that's all fake?
Who knows? Everything else seems to be

Krisidious

that's true... although I feel like I have a pretty keen eye to the fake.

it almost seems to me that what they've done is shot a video from one angle and then someone built the scene in 3D and textured the models to match the video and then shot the 180 degree camera rotation shots. if you notice the video is a bit hazy, seemingly on purpose, but the "water splashing" looks pretty good. I would really like to know. it's a pretty dramatic effect.

dale

Check the Stargate Studio Reel above. It shows the use of the green screen background pretty well.

simon le bon

Hi Krisidious, Scottpara, Mitcorb, Numbthumb, Dale, Tig, it is so cool to recover you ++

After Mitcorb suggestions, (we can also add filming by drone which is a very active research actually) I have watched again the "Swamp People" video.
I can be wrong but I still think that it had been made with a multicameras process.

the motion is not fluid but a bit jerky. I think the great skill of Matrix team (and the big money to do it) was to give a perfect fluidity to the motion at postproduction stage.
the people motion is not "natural" but something like "stopped" during the semi circular travellings. This tends to exclude the "natural" live camera movement.
Scottpara is right: only 180°! So, no greenscreen needed and so a lot of posproduction(money) saved. (It is not very foolish to imagine a 180° semi-circle of x-cameras set on an inflatable raft)

After all, if you want to achieve a "Bullet time" by yourself, follow the guide:

[flash=550,450:36cbbv51]http://embed.5min.com/63506475/[/flash:36cbbv51]
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Create-Bullet-Time-Effect-63506475

simon.

[flash=425,349:36cbbv51]http://www.youtube.com/v/mPImPZMeXdg[/flash:36cbbv51]

Krisidious

that's pretty kool Simon, I didn't think they could do it that cheaply in the swamp, but I guess it would have been simpler than I thought.