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Making mountains out of foam and dirt for the Power Rangers Megazord transformation from season 1 to season 2. The toy Zord is there for comparison since we used actual toys to create the in-camera puppets/models. Such is life on a low-budget kids show.
Here's the Mega Thunderzord scene that puppet ended up in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKC5B7k5r4w
Watching it again, I see now that we were attempting to match directly to Japanese footage. Not bad for a bunch of kids.
This is the higher quality vimeo version: vimeo.com/86516706
This video is made from 24 photos taken on the 1st Light Painting Workshop by Oddball Graphics
I would like to thank light painters Maarten Takens, Ina Ellpunkt and Anika Möllenbeck from the Noctis Lux team for being the first attending my workshops and for allowing me to use their photos to make this video.
A very big thank you to Rutger Verberkmoes for the excellent sound track. You can read my thoughts man! ;) I’ve also used his track to control one of the layers.
Curved Folding Structure Of Conical Cylinder With Hexadecagon Base youtu.be/LZJtT1Lkexo
As a reference and inspiration to create and design these structures I can mention the following authors and their works based on curved fold:
David Huffman's
Ron Resch
Philip Chapman-Bell
Jun Mitani
Tomohiro Tachi
Manfrotto 055cxpro4
center column can swing out for low angle shots, legs can fan out to almost 90 degrees, i can sit virtually pancake flat.
www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/584477-REG/Manfrotto_by_Bo...
www.dsksic.com/industrial_design/news_design
Industrial Design is a blend of art, technique and sociology. In association with ISD France, DSK ISD, offers 3 main Industrial Design specialties that are Transportation Design, Product Design and Digital Design. ISD France is an International Design School which has been training the elite of Industrial Designers for 22 years. It is internationally recognized and has trained more than 600 students that are now professional designers in the best companies and design studios worldwide. Today the school has brought to India its experience and international network in the industry.
Curved Folding Structure Of Conical Cylinder With Hexadecagon Base youtu.be/LZJtT1Lkexo
As a reference and inspiration to create and design these structures I can mention the following authors and their works based on curved fold:
David Huffman's
Ron Resch
Philip Chapman-Bell
Jun Mitani
Tomohiro Tachi
www.dsksic.com/industrial_design/news_design
Industrial Design is a blend of art, technique and sociology. In association with ISD France, DSK ISD, offers 3 main Industrial Design specialties that are Transportation Design, Product Design and Digital Design. ISD France is an International Design School which has been training the elite of Industrial Designers for 22 years. It is internationally recognized and has trained more than 600 students that are now professional designers in the best companies and design studios worldwide. Today the school has brought to India its experience and international network in the industry.
I use this for greater control over bracketing exposures on my camera (whose default is 9 exposures). This also has the ability to do timelapse. Small, lightweight and pretty weather resistant.
Acratech leveling head. light and strong i use for basic still photography.
i also bring a ball head.
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nodal ninja 5L
for shooting 360 spherical panoramas/HDRIs. when traveling, i don't pack it in the travel case it comes with. i just throw it wrapped in camera cloth and it takes up less room.
i know with a 180 degree lens i technically don't need a 2 axis nodal ninja but i might use a different camera occasionally and this allows me to use any body.
more info here:
lol... just some fun i had in my spare time today. i needed a good VFX image for my personal website and this is what i decided on. so how did i do? comments are very welcome.
example setup of my cam on a nodal ninja. this is an old pic of a NN3 which i returned because i was told it would fit a Nikon D300, and it didn't.
Crew photo hamming it up during the model mountain build. From left to right, Trent Shumway, me, and Rick Shick. We were all just young whipper snappers.
Nikon DG-2
magnifiying cup for my D300 eyepiece that can swing off. In the "Use" position.
I use this when photographing props, textures, miniatures, even things further to see a little bit better and make sure i'm in focus.
Hilti PD38
this is a laser range meter. you point and press the big button and it gives you the distance, very accurately.
Pros:
- works good in sunlight
- shock/drop protected
- it can calculate area and volume for you but i usually don't have to do that on the fly.
- it has bluetooth connectivity to a pc (windows/BOO) or a pda (again windows/SUCK). so when i press the button and take a measurement, it sends the number over to the pda in an excel spreadsheet cell. VERY NICE and saves me from human error and my bad penmanship. surveying a location or set by myself (as i'm usually forced to do) this is a time-saver. when i have an assist with me, we can do a lot of data collecting very quickly.
Cons:
- the bluetooth only talks to PC/Windows machines. it's stupid because all it's doing is sending a number, i wish they would have an SDK or something.
- they don't make this anymore. but you can still find new ones in stock remaining in stores and at their own warehouse.
I'm saving up for the Leica Disto D8 which has a color screen, and everything my Hilti does. The good news is Leica will work with software people to try and get their laser meters to work with your software via bluetooth.
The bad news is the D8 doesn't look like it has much protection, I have dropped my laser from serious heights and it's survived. (yet for some reason the plastic sheet protector for the screen has never come off).
Suunto PM-5 Clinometer
with this and your brain to do a little math, you can calculate height, slope and vertical of almost anything. good for big surveys of things like trees, houses, terrain.
Calculated Industries Frame Master II
This thing has saved my ass more times than i can count. When you and the editor are tired and stupid from no sleep, this thing is a god send. it can convert any timecode/filmcode/frames of any rate. The Foot+frame conversion to Minutes:Seconds with one button push is great, push the button again and it shows time code (ndf, df). You can program a frame rate in memory and it will convert for that as well.
the button layout, the ease of use, even the sturdy build of this thing (which has lasted easily over 10 years) is awesome. i have tried every software/iphone framecode/timecode calculator out there and none are this easy and this fast.
the ONLY con is it is not backlit but that is the only complaint i have.
p.s. Calculated industries don't make these anymore and don't plan to. somebody write some letters!
Nikon magnifiying cup for my D300 eyepiece that can swing off.
I use this when photographing props, textures, miniatures to see a little bit better.
Leatherman.
don't get the keychain, mini or ones with plastic colored handles.
if it's not heavy, grey and can hurt you, you probably have the wrong one.
this one has sawing knife for rope, a finer knife for cutting filament, screwdriver, wire cutters, pliers. and optional bit-kit.
Leatherman 830160 Surge Pocket Multitool with Leather Sheath
i also like the Gerber multi-tools as well.
25 foot tape measure
sometimes lasers don't work especially for props or pieces with nothing to bounce off of.
- english and metric
- really bright tape with BIG numbers so you can see them in darker corners, etc.
- backside of tape has a vertical read scale to make reading up and down walls easier
- the tip has a hook and is magnetic, very helpful when you're doing measuring alone. the magnet is strong enough to hold the whole tape fully extended.
i have broken 2 of these (this is my 3rd). they don't make them anymore because i think they finally got smart and evolved the model to have a rubber casing to protect from drops.
[UPDATE: BROKEN]
nikon mb-10 extra battery and vertical grip.
my D300 fires pretty fast, so i don't use it that much when doing sphericals. i do use it for still photography of textures, photogrammetry elements and reference stills.
Nikon MB-D10 Multi Power Battery Pack for Nikon D300 & D700 Digital SLR Cameras