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Can someone tell me how this is done and what program is used? Like the pics Privateer Press uses on their site. I know how to take pictures. I'm not a novice. Just a novice as far as 3D pics are concerned.

Links to some examples?
Pretty please?

Sounds interesting.


Eric

P.S. Do they require those funny little glasses? I don't like the glasses. My head's too big for 'em & they give me vertigo. lol

I think he's referring to the spinning 3d version of the model, which, if I understand correctly, is done by taking a lot of pictures from a 360 side view and building them into a single image. I am not sure how to turn it into a flash loop, but I think you can use one of the big photoshop programs to build the multiple-image file. Kind of like avatars that change.

Here is a link - it is a flash loop:

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/ga ... uard-scyir

I always thought they did that by the same method as the "Bullet time" movie shots.. almost a stop-motion process.. shoot a pic, move the model, shoot it again, move it again.. then chain them togeather to have it rotate..

Ah.

: (

Color me disappointed.

Exactly as has been stated, those 360 degree pictures are shot as a series of stills, then linked together.
You can go this with free programs available online that create animated gif's.

I can't recall the name of the one I use, but I can post it later, if anyone's interested (either that, or Norseman might know. I told him about it before).

Eric

Creeper has the right of it. So, how many pics would you need to take I wonder? And I'm assuming you would either need a spinning base or a camera mount that can spin around the model.

i would guess you could put a mark down where the model originally rests at, and then just rotate it on that spot for the pics.

as for the pics, their rotation usually has a half dozen or so angles, doesn't it, i would guess the more photo's you use, the smoother the rotation will be

I would guess then, that 24 pics for a smooth rotation. Using the clock method of positioning (i.e one picture for each facing)

that sounds as though it would work out well

Wouldn't it be easier to put a digital video recorder on a mount, then make a base for the mini, and just record the full 360 rotation? Since those are flash, couldn't you just use the video instead of snapshots? I don't work with the stuff, so I don't know. But it just seems like you'd have a better go with that rather than trying to link up 24 shots.

Also, putting 24 shots in the file will make it pretty big, I would think. I don't know how it would compare to a video of the rotation though.

I doubt 24 would be enough, honestly.
I'd probably think to double that, at least.

Eric

Creeper wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to put a digital video recorder on a mount, then make a base for the mini, and just record the full 360 rotation? Since those are flash, couldn't you just use the video instead of snapshots? I don't work with the stuff, so I don't know. But it just seems like you'd have a better go with that rather than trying to link up 24 shots.

Also, putting 24 shots in the file will make it pretty big, I would think. I don't know how it would compare to a video of the rotation though.

That's what I thought.

IMO, the easiest way would be to make an animated GIF file.

Put the camera on a tripod and the model on a little turntable. Take 12 pictures as normal, and just turn it into an animated GIF.

This should be doable with any "good" picture program.

Get out of my head John! That's exactly along the lines I was thinking.

The video would be a bigger file size, and not as easily postable in a forum type environment as an animated gif. Or so I've been told.

I still think 12 would be far too few and the gif would look stuttered.

Here's the program I make animated gifs with:

http://majorgeeks.com/Photoscape_d5714.html

It's a MajorGeeks download (so, you know it's virus free), is freeware, and is as simple as drag & drop.

Eric