My current tripod has a removable centre, which extends to 1.5m and can be used as a monopod. When I have time, money and energy to spare, I would like to build the car mount (two years ago we developed a script and storyboard for a project that would extensively use a car mount which at that time were elusive), and build a simple camera-control rig out of LEGO® Mindstorm (this last one isn't in Dan's book!), mainly to be used for a multi-pass stop motion animation (which, incidently will feature LEGO® characters). But for starters we'll be building a handheld stabiliser, a dolly and a crane with a tilt head. There is also a very cool rig called the 'Touch of Evil' Cam, which is fundamentally the same as the first crane shot in cinema history.
Much more to my taste is Dan Selakovich's Killer Camera Rigs You Can Build which has kits in the 2 to 3 digit range, perfect for Independent Low-budget Filmmaking (which is different to Studio Low-budget, which can usually afford to hire the equipment they need). The web site has an impressive gallery of home made rigs, cranes, dollies and stabilisers but still require a certain amount of know-how and access to some decent hardware tools.
And when you want to impress on a tight budget, there aren't many options around. Plus it allows you to pivot for a pan or a tilt.īut sometimes that's not enough, sometimes you need to actually move the camera to make an impressive 'motion picture'.
#Toon boom studio 8 setup like flash movie#
The single most important tool you can use with a camera, film or digital, movie or still, is a tripod.
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