Motion control is mostly used in SFX. The vast technology in the robotic camera is the same used by car manufacturers. Motion Control is a robotic camera that can either be controlled by a computer on site or programmed to repeat movements to be pixel accurate.
The Motion Control Rig in the Phoenix studio is a portable rig meaning it can be dismantled and transported very easily compared to some rigs that are in set that will just be constructed and left there, because they are just too big to be moved.
The motion control rig is situated on a rail type track that gives it the smooth continuous motion that you see in most films nowadays.
We used the motion control rig to record some crowd duplication. this task meant that we had to set the motion control rig up on the computer to run a programed sequence of movements when the camera was rolling with the help of a flashing blue light that would flash on frame 1 to make it easier to synch up the footage in composting. A group of us planned out what we were going to do for our crowd duplication and then we had to record us on the foreground doing our sequence and then we repeated it but with us doing a different sequence in the background. In theory it should look like all of our group have doubles.
We also went into the recording studio where most/ all of the sound effects are recorded as well as soundtracks and voice overs. When a group of us was in the Music studio we got shown a short 3d animation with no sounds. The task was for us to create convincing enough sounds using just easy found objects. When we were recording the sounds we decided to use a wooden box for the stair sequence. this gave us a convincing enough sound but we would need to cut and put it into the exact place it was needed. The hardware the studio uses is a Mac which runs the Pro Tools software which is a industry level software used to record and edit music files.
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