PUSH - Directed by Matt Sconce

sfoster said:
I guarantee it will cost more than $100, but for help planning I suggest homebuiltstabilizers.com I have tons of research on these puppies, and have built two of my own. If you want some help, or suggestions, let me know! By the way, electric controls are good, but manual is way better if you can get good gearing work done. Electric tends to be noisy, and expensive for the motors. If you do go with electric, you're looking at spending $2000 on just the motors if you want them to be silent.
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Good advice Shane. I will check the web site. I already have the motors though, (three) and yes they did cost (somebody) over $3000. I got them off a weed-eater robot a guy made around 5 years ago; because he was a genius, was really, really old and didn't want to weed-eat his yard. He just wanted to just sit with a radio control and a lemonade and let a robot weed-eat his yard. So, he spent over $4000 on creating a one-of-a-kind robot. He machined the gears and stuff himself and they are completely silent. They even have their own built-in sealed oil baths for the gears... which I may or may not use. He ran it once and then died of old age... and I got it from his sister. He was brilliant and had worked on the Manhattan project back in WWII.

I will take your advice and look into both methods of control though. I will keep receipts... If I make it for less than $100, I want you to treat me to a double-double burger dinner at In-N-Out, 'K? If it costs more, I'll treat you. Never underestimate a scrounge like me. :kali::kali:

Did you make your cranes with triangular modules or did you make them with square modules? I have plans for both. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
I just talked to Mark today and he said the VFX are progressing well. I talked to Mike Aro about sound several days ago and we will be scheduling a time this week to finalize effects. After that, I will mix a version for you, the amazing Justin Durban! Once all these aspects are in place, rocking will commence.
 
msconce said:
I just talked to Mark today and he said the VFX are progressing well. I talked to Mike Aro about sound several days ago and we will be scheduling a time this week to finalize effects. After that, I will mix a version for you, the amazing Justin Durban! Once all these aspects are in place, rocking will commence.
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How did you do on the sound and render last night Matt? :violin:
 
I made one from square tubing, and the other from pipe, so round. I had to put supports on the round one because it reaches 14ft, and if you don't use some sort of cable support, it will wiggle when you stop the crane giving it a sort of drifting effect. I just did the top, but probably should have done the sides. I also made the pivoting base out of a threaded pipe union. I then took apart some wheels and stole some ball bearings and stuck them in. It worked good, but not great.

Everyone I've talked to says use a lazy susan for the pivoting base, or buy bearings made for it. As far as the head goes, I would think that skateboard wheel bearings would be fine. Just make sure there is no play in the gears, otherwise you will get a jolt when you begin a camera move. Also, you have to be careful with those motors when it comes to variable speed. I would recommend experimenting with linear and log taper potentiometers to see which works better with cushioning the start of a movement.

I wouldn't recommend using radio controls, but rather wired controls. There's just too much interference, and I'd hate to lose a whole shoot day because the neighbors kid wont quit driving his radio controlled boat in the bathtub! Not to mention they are tough to move extremely slow and you want to have a nice range in speed control of the camera.

I've been most impressed with the triangle jib that Jimmy Jib makes. It has tilt, pan, and dutch control, and can extend to 40ft. Check it out here.

I have ideas for a crane that can extend electronically too. I think we should get together with some paper and pencils and figure this thing out.
 
Gary Sconce said:
How did you do on the sound and render last night Matt? :violin:
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I didn't hear the sound, but Matt said it turned out nicely... He's out on a shoot right now for the station... or he was!

The VFX are looking nice. The RED footage is so daunting that you can't really preview anytihng... you have to render to review, which sucks. That scene that I am working on it coming along, it still looks a bit to CG, but again, you can't tell at LOW preview RES and no animation preview.
 
msconce said:
So are mine! It should live up to the hype. :shocked:
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Naw... (Minimize expectations... Min-ni-mize... min-ni-mize...) It is going to be HORRIBLE (rattle cheeks on the 'R' while saying it...) Horrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible! :)

Aw... It'll actually be somewhat nice! :thumbsup:

How late did you have to stay up for the sound and render last night Matt? :huh:

Did Mike get the sound I talked with you about for that part? :happy:
 
I was up until 3-4 am getting a cut to Justin. Mark has some work to do on one effect to make it fit more, but I love the way it is going. The sounds for "that part" have not been done yet, but they will be cool and already sound like what we talked about.


I hope people enjoy Push. Lots of hard work and lots of effort have gone into it. More will go into it before it is done!
 
Mark T. Aro said:
I didn't hear the sound, but Matt said it turned out nicely... He's out on a shoot right now for the station... or he was!

The VFX are looking nice. The RED footage is so daunting that you can't really preview anytihng... you have to render to review, which sucks. That scene that I am working on it coming along, it still looks a bit to CG, but again, you can't tell at LOW preview RES and no animation preview.
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That would suck, Mark. So you are having to do small changes over and over to get it right? Man. :cry: :shocked: Yo da man Mark. :kali:
 
msconce said:
I was up until 3-4 am getting a cut to Justin. Mark has some work to do on one effect to make it fit more, but I love the way it is going. The sounds for "that part" have not been done yet, but they will be cool and already sound like what we talked about.


I hope people enjoy Push. Lots of hard work and lots of effort have gone into it. More will go into it before it is done!
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That'll be neatobunga Matt. I can hardly wait to see all three movies we have been toiling on for the last months. A-whole-lotta-work-has-been-goin'-on. :laugh:
 
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