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Toshiba’s Timesculpture
Posted on Nov 13, 2008 - 10:28 PM ESTCheck out this awesome new work by Hungry Man for Toshiba’s Upscaling Technology.
If you’re impressed, then you’ll really be impressed with these facts:
- The TV ad was shot using 200 Toshiba Gigashot Cameras: the highest number of moving image cameras ever used in a film sequence
- This particular technique, viewing looping action in 360 degrees, has never been done before
- The rig was custom built weighing approximately half a tonne, including 200 cameras and electronics
- The rig measures 14m diameter circle and 1.8m high
- The 200 cameras were all triggered using a single remote control
- Once the rig was built, four focus pullers spent three days focusing and aligning all 200 cameras
- The time spent processing footage from 200 cameras was over four weeks - 24 hours a day seven days a week!
- New offline and online editing software had to be specifically built for the job
- In terms of data, this is one of the biggest jobs a post-production house has ever taken on - 20TB of data
And here’s a really cool behind the scenes video on how they put it all together:
Now if this does not convince you to go buy a Toshiba, I’m not sure what will. Thanks Rasheed for the link.
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