[Maryam]

Panoramic
This might be useful for those interested in 3D matte painting.



When a camera pans or tilts about its own nodal point,
it experiences no translation at all — only rotation about itself.
Nodal point pans and tilts can be recognized by the fact that...

Read more at The open notebook of Joseph Francis

[jfrancis]

Here's a little more on the topic. It's part 1 of a new series of 3 parts.

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/ ... pan_1.html

[Ross Forster]

Cheers, I've been looking more and more into this subject recently.

[jfrancis]

more still... here's part 2:

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/ ... t_pan.html

... these first two parts were groundwork for part 3, which will use flat planes intersecting in 3-space instead of a painted sphere.

[Ross Forster]

Thanks for the heads up jfrancis.

[jfrancis]

Here, as promised above, is part 3. If you see only one of these, see this one.

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/ ... pan_2.html

This is an explanation of how to do nodal point pan and tile work with nothing but flat planes.

[Ross Forster]

Great, much abliged.

[homer]

Great notes.
You should do one with multiple layers and parallax too.

Thanks Joseph

[Ross Forster]

Yeah, by all means please continue Joseph... they've been pretty damn good so far. 8)

Any chance you could supply the scene file used in those demonstrations?

[LFGabel]

Great info. I've added this to my list of shots to try. Thanks! :)

I'm a newb in all this, but I think this technique will only work with a nodal camera move. In other words, multiple layers and parallax doesn't occur with a nodal pan. Am I correct to think this?