Wow six whole blog posts in one year, no wonder I forgot my user name and password. Anyways I had some free time over christmas and thought I would show an example of a simple 360 degree camera orbit simulation. I just used a cheap greenscreen, some lights, and one of those spinning discs kids sit on and spin around. So I basically just spun my Daughter and I around a couple of times on it while the camera was locked down on a tripod. I keyed the footage with keylight tooned it out using some filters and blending modes then used particular with a basic star preset and animated the camera around the footage as many times as we spin on the disc. Set the footage to always orient itself toward the camera, and you have the look of a camera orbiting around us. Pretty simple, but effective. Happy New Year everyone maybe my resolution will be to actually make some posts this year.
31 Dec
New Years Resolution
