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I need some help doing dolly (tracking) shots. You may have noticed, the dolly shots in my film "Small World" are flat-out awful. I'd like some help doing dolly shots, CGI or real. Keep in mind the space I animate on is maybe and inch longer than a gray baseplate. I need video tutorial, pics, anything to help. Also, some advice or tips on dolly zooms, or "Zollies", would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Create a good camera cage first off, and make sure it is really secure. Then create a simple rig, being a track of tiles as wide as the distance the dolly will travel, by the size of the dolly, with an elevated siding, this being plates on the outside with tiles on top. Then set a ruler or yardstick on the axis the dolly will travel on, held down by tape or bricks. This will help you measure the increments the camera travels. Simply animate the rig going on it's track, increments are at your choice. You can also make the set on the track instead if you don't want to make a cage.
that one obviously reduces the quality quite a lot... I'll be interested to see the manual one as well because this is something I want to learn as well
Whach this tutorial that fancypants made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcQIYjQkQhg
I don't have a camera stand.
Hmmm well WMM has somthing like that but all it does is zoom from left to right, but it dose work fine if you make your figures more at the right time.
No. Is that you by the cannon, Brickyman?
Your green screening is a lot worse then your dolly shot, why not just get this background and put it behind the set rather then green screen it it, it's cheap and would look better.
For your dolly are you moving the camera or the set? If you can't secure the camera you may just tape a ruler to the table top and slide the set against it. (also buildings in the background should hardly move at all in a dolly shot, having them move by as quickly as the set in the foreground looks wrong, having them not move would probably look better (and if you are moving the set would be easer if you had the physical backdrop)
I don't have the room to move the set, and that was a rough try. The horrible blue screening covers up the masking, which is worse.
You know, I never thought to just move the set. It seems so obvious now! God I'm stupid!!
I don't have a camera stand.
I recommend buying one. Asides from Lego, a camera, and a computer, it is the most useful tool you can get.
I created a downloadable tutorial, it is simple and to the point and will help I am sure. If you aren't using a Quickcam Webcam you can still follow the tutorial, just make a Lego cage for your webcam/camera that holds the camera solid and still.
Just click on the Download here link on this page.
You know, I never thought to just move the set. It seems so obvious now! God I'm stupid!!
goldencamerastudios wrote:I don't have a camera stand.
I recommend buying one. Asides from Lego, a camera, and a computer, it is the most useful tool you can get.
I just have my cradle on a baseplate, then just slide it a little.
No. Is that you by the cannon, Brickyman?
Yes.
Dashing fellow, aren't I?
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