250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party's Mind-Bending Music Video

Re:250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party's Mind-B... by erik on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:12AM (#2815604)

I think that the choppiness has more to do with the fact that they aren't using any CGI. Some sort of image based rendering (morph effect) to fill in intermediate frames would smooth out the pans significantly, and give it more of a matrix like look.

I'm surprised they didn't do any vertical pans. Perhaps they didn't have enough cameras stacked vertically to give a good effect.

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Re:250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party's Mind-B... by cuu508 on Thursday July 28, 2011 @03:20AM (#2815764)

Or it could be because of frame rate of those pans. Increase frame rate and the motion will appear fluid. But it will also be shorter. 250 cameras sounds like a lot but there were maybe just 25 horizontally, so that's 1 second of fluid animation, or 2 seconds of choppy animation. To get a better Matrix-like effect, they would rearrange them so all 250 are used.

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Re:250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party's Mind-B... by ZoFreX on Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:28AM (#2815892)

Increasing the framerate alone won't get you all the way there, to give the effect the camera is panning around I imagine it will look much better with some motion blur.

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