Camera Pans!

[DHM211]

It does look like it was taken from the TV. But I think its a good try! What episode is this from?

DBZ Kai episode 44.

[Metalwario64]

Okay, I just watched the corresponding Z episode, and found out that it, indeed, is not a camera pan. You took two separate images and spliced them together, which is not the purpose of this thread:



These are camera pans (click for full size):



A camera pan is what it sounds like: it's when the camera is panning (or sliding) in any given direction across a shot.

However, despite not being for this thread, what you did is a nifty idea if done right:




(Click for full size)

However, no matter how cool it is, it is not, and never will be a camera pan, no matter how much you desire it to be. It's just not meant to be this way. I'm sorry. Please, just... let it go... It's for the best, and then it will all be over with, and when the thing is finally done, you will truly understand.

Trust me. I know what I'm talking about.



...I think...

[sumpter360]

Well, despite it not being a pan, I think it's pretty cool that the skies line up in both shots, to create one seamless image.

[Metalwario64]

Well, despite it not being a pan, I think it's pretty cool that the skies line up in both shots, to create one seamless image.

Which one? Mine or DHM211s? Because I can clearly see a difference in DHM211s image. The images they used don't go together either, as Goku and Freeza aren't looking at each other in that image, but off to each others side slightly, and the light sources are inconsistent between Goku and Freeza. However, I'm not denying it was a neat idea, it's just that it wasn't executed quite as well as it could have been.

However, if mine is the one you're referring to, it's because I edited it.

I took the colors of the top and bottom of the sky, used the wand tool to select the sky between Goku and Freeze, followed it up by using the gradient tool to replicate the sky, then I added a small amount of noise and blurred it to imitate 16mm film grain. Finally, I erased the gradient layer by hand where the clouds were, and then saved it as a relatively high quality JPEG, but still slightly low enough quality to slightly compress the new grain, making it slightly compressed like the actual US Dragon Box grain.

[Corpsecreate]

I'm confused. How do you guys stitch together the frames to make one complete image? I would love to do this, they all look awesome but I dont know how! Its only possible on camera pans with absolutely no movement is that correct?

[Gonstead]

I'm confused. How do you guys stitch together the frames to make one complete image? I would love to do this, they all look awesome but I dont know how! Its only possible on camera pans with absolutely no movement is that correct?

Quoted from 2 pages back

It's when you see an image on screen, and the "camera" is slowly moving to the other side of the image. People here are threading those together to get the full picture. As an example, the red box is the only thing you see on screen at one time.

(This might not be exactly the amount that is seen in the show. I just cropped that to 4:3 and put a box around it. You should get the idea, though.)

[Corpsecreate]

Ah right, so its done that way, seems a little time consuming but well worth it

Heres one I tried.



Left = Dbox, Right = Dbox with some of my filters.

[sumpter360]

Well, despite it not being a pan, I think it's pretty cool that the skies line up in both shots, to create one seamless image.

Which one? Mine or DHM211s?

However, if mine is the one you're referring to, it's because I edited it.

Oh... well you did a great job! It fooled me

[Metalwario64]

Ah right, so its done that way, seems a little time consuming but well worth it

Heres one I tried.

It's okay (though I dislike the filtered one. Those are some awfully smudged clouds), but the bottom image needs to be shifted up and to the left a bit. Also, it would be great if you could provide full-sized versions as well. I don't know if Imageshack resizes based on file size like Photoshop does, but if it does, then saving it as a high quality JPEG (quality 10 and up in Photoshop, and quality 90 and up in Irfanview) would suffice for these kinds of images.

Well, despite it not being a pan, I think it's pretty cool that the skies line up in both shots, to create one seamless image.

Which one? Mine or DHM211s?

However, if mine is the one you're referring to, it's because I edited it.

Oh... well you did a great job! It fooled me

Thanks.

[DHM211]

Ssj trunks pan.

http://s1071.photobucket.com/albums/u51 ... er=noflash

[Metalwario64]

There you go! Much better now!

[DHM211]

There you go! Much better now!

Thanks

[DHM211]

Goku and recoom camera pan

http://s1071.photobucket.com/albums/u51 ... er=noflash

And if you dont like nudity.

http://s1071.photobucket.com/albums/u51 ... er=noflash

[DHM211]

SSJ Gohan

http://s1071.photobucket.com/albums/u51 ... 16f455.jpg

Buu saga Vegeta

http://s1071.photobucket.com/albums/u51 ... 7f777f.jpg

[eledoremassis02]

[DHM211]

Perfect cell pan!
http://s1071.photobucket.com/albums/u51 ... er=noflash

[Piccolo Daimao]

Has anyone done a camera pan of Freeza after he transforms into his second form?

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

Sorry for necroposting, but I wanna add one as well.

From DBZ Blu-Ray

[Pokewhiz7]

Awesome, but do you have the full resolution one?

[Metalwario64]

Don't worry about necroposting in this thread. It's better to have these all in one place than to create 100 threads about it.

Anyway, yours is pretty small (and not well spliced together, unfortunately), so I did the same shot, but with the Season One set footage.

(Click for full size)

Why use that crappy footage you might ask? Well, some vertical pans I think look a bit cramped (as images, not within the context of the show), and I think the added horizontal frame helps give them some breathing room, which I think helps the pans as general images.