Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]
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Re: Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]
#2If you are interested in this or anything Walt Disney, I _strongly_ recommend visiting the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco (https://waltdisney.org/). It even has an original MultiPlane camera in the gift shop! I also recommend taking the Walk In Walt's Disneyland Footsteps (https://disneyland.disney.go.com/events-tours/disneyland/wal...) guided tour at Disneyland which I just did this weekend and greatly enjoyed.
Re: Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]
#3I can't imagine how painstaking it is to do every frame through the panning camera backdrop, and the amount of work gone through the planning phase. It definitely seems like Disney invented interesting technologies back then.
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#4I can't imagine how painstaking it is to do every frame through the panning camera backdrop, and the amount of work gone through the planning phase. It definitely seems like Disney invented interesting technologies back then.
Nerd me wants to yell, "Walt, drive all the planes with stepper motors and you can record/playback sequences from a computer!"
Or better still, "Digitize all the artwork for each plane and composite them in a computer!"
Seriously though, it is amazing what patience and ingenuity can accomplish.
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#5Old instructional videos so much more informative than today’s. They’re so simple. Clear narration, simple animations, music is appropriate and minimal. They don’t overload our senses in the way modern videography does. It seems to me that everything today is optimized for the highest cognitive load - sort of similar to the “loudness war” in music, but for videos. Popular videos on YT are optimized for clicks and likes and subscribes.
For example, compare Mythbusters first season vs the last. Another example is “The secret life of Machines”; amazing BBC series on how things work.
I love old videography so much. I could watch highly technical instructional videos like this all day without fatigue. Such a great pleasure. Thank for sharing this!
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#6I can only imagine how much work is put into modern 3D animated movies and that it's far from being easy or quick to produce.
On the other side, if I look at the creation process of hand-drawn animation movies and the involved physical man labour, which is so vastly different from labour in front of a computer, that makes it so much more worthy as a memory than any modern animation movie. Or is this simple nostalgia tricking me ?
Regarding that MultiPlane Camera. I never though about the parallax effect in those old movies and just dismissed it with "well they just draw it frame by frame". Watching this was a real eye-opener.
Re: Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]
#7I can't imagine how painstaking it is to do every frame through the panning camera backdrop, and the amount of work gone through the planning phase. It definitely seems like Disney invented interesting technologies back then.
Nerd me wants to yell, "Walt, drive all the planes with stepper motors and you can record/playback sequences from a computer!" Or better still, "Digitize all the artwork for each plane and composite them in a computer!" Seriously though, it is amazing what patience and ingenuity can accomplish.
"Walt, are you aware of how much money you can save if you just did some ray tracing? This is crazy."
Seriously, though. Despite having seen this video before, I am glad it is posted again.
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#8Very interesting and well done video.
This made me think of Uridium on the good old C64, for the reason of parallax scrolling.
Re: Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]
#9Old instructional videos so much more informative than today’s. They’re so simple. Clear narration, simple animations, music is appropriate and minimal. They don’t overload our senses in the way modern videography does. It seems to me that everything today is optimized for the highest cognitive load - sort of similar to the “loudness war” in music, but for videos. Popular videos on YT are optimized for clicks and lik…
The Secret Life of Machines is available here: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/index.html
If you're ever in Southwold, on the Suffolk coast, Tim Hunkin (the presenter) has his "Under the Pier Show" on the pier. Well worth a look. http://underthepier.com/
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#10You have to listen to him no longer than 2 minutes, to realize it doesn't matter how good of a drawer Disney was; first and foremost he wan an engineer!
Just listen how he explains the problem with the Moon, and then goes to explain solution. Clear cut: problem we faced, and solution we applied. That's where genius of people (and financial success) like Mr. Disney comes from.
This guy might have been put in Lockheed's Skunkworks labs with the task to design a solid rocket booster, and he would be just fine.