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Hi
I just wonder if anyone has any hands on experience with shooting scale miniatures and models in stereo.
I guess a motion controlled left and right pass would work for static models, but when things are moving, things get more tricky…
Most mirror-rigs are quite large, and then generally, most miniatures would have to be larger in scale compared to a standard 2D approach…
Any thoughts or experiences would be fantastic! 🙂
You can probably find it on ebay, but there’s an old issue of CINEFANTASTIQUE that covers shooting miniatures for SPACEHUNTER and JAWS 3D that has some good stuff (esp about SPACEHUNTER, with the mirror-rigs.) Not even mo-con available, but it shows how if you set the cameras wrong, you will get miniatures that really look their own size, utterly blowing the illusion.
Oddly enough, I just interviewed a stereographer/stereo supervisor who was working with a good vfx cinematographer recently, trying to EXPLOIT this very defect for doing miniaturization effects in a new project. Shooting miniatures or full-size objects with the interocular or convergence set to make the scene object look very small. I asked FANTASTIC VOYAGE again? but didn’t get an answer.
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