Archive for November, 2009
Stereoscopic 3D – Ready to Shoot!
A few epiphanies and a trip to Lowe’s and I’m ready to go. I ended up using a couple of 3 inch-long 1/4″ bolts, and a bunch of washers and nuts. The flat metal plate is actually the plate that sits on your door frame that the knob latches onto. It’s called a “lip strike” and works really well in this sort of application. The screw holes are just the right size (1/4″ at least) and are equidistant from the larger hole in the middle. Another hex nut and a bigass fender washer (1/2″ hole, 1.5″ diameter) secures the whole thing to the mounting plate for my Fig Rig. Test videos coming soon! Now I need to get some Anaglyphic glasses so I can start figuring out how to prep the video for 3D-ization. I’ll have to make a trip to a party store or something tomorrow.
My brother Brad holding the Fig Rig with the semi-finished product mounted on it.
Close-up of the mounts. A fender washer holds the whole thing onto the plate of the Fig.
Mounted onto the Fig Rig
3D part 2
To buy:
- 2 small protractors
- 1 small ruler
- A couple of tripod mount-sized screws + washers, etc
- Some sort of apparatus that will allow me to screw on both cameras and slide them along the center
- A handle or pistol grip to mount in the center of the camera apparatus. Additionally, this should be able to mount to a tripod/the Fig Rig.
Alan MacDougall (Jake from ‘Koala Wars!‘) is writing a quick app that will let me calculate parallax based on the angles and distance of the two cameras via my iPhone. This will allow me to naturally mimic the human eye (Avatar-style) to make the 3D images less exaggerated and hopefully more accurate.
Experiments in the Third Dimension…
Science! Anyway, I was recently doing an inventory of our gear and realized that with the 5D2′s shoot-video-in-disguise and the HF100′s small size, I didn’t have any real use for our two RCA Small Wonder cameras. We bought them as quick little things to mess around with anyway (and they were new enough at the time that Kim got interviewed in the Wall Street Journal!) so now that they’re just sitting in a box, I looked for a fun experiment that would put them both to use. The answer: Stereoscopic 3D! Read the rest of this entry »
Behind the Scenes – Fantastic Mr. Fox round-up
If you’re like me, then you’ve been excitedly following the behind the scenes links to all things Fantastic Mr. Fox! And IF you’re like me, then you go back to behind the scenes clips and articles later for reference because they’re so dang informative and interesting.
But with SO MANY clips, links, and articles, how can one keep track of everything? By reading this article where I have organized and linked everything in one concise place! (or as many as I could find since before this article is posted!)