minDrones work in progress appeared for the first time to a public
audience at the annual Blender Conference: here's the video

You can download the 3D visual effects presentation paper
from Blender site here or directly here

This short movie has been shot for its major part with the Mark Roberts Milo Motion Control,
an oscar-winning superb rig. If you need to use the Milo on a production, or an operator,
if you need motion control services or to discuss about a shot please feel free to mail me




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To see Blender in action, please have a look at the features videos page on their
new website. There you'll see a rough preview of one of the 3D effects of minDrones:
director of photography Corrado Zacchi
artwork Riccardo Covino, technical support Giuseppe Ghibò



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I'll be at the Blender conference to talk a bit about VFX!

Let's imagine we have to reproduce this documentary from scratch
in Blender only (apart from video sources of course).



It contains a good amount of video editing,
3D including particles, and soft bodies (for flags), images filtering
and transformation, color correction, keying, motion graphics and titles, audio mixing
(tracking is missing tho, stabilization I'm not sure).
How to improve Blender so that we can do these things easily and fast?

Take a look at the last 5 minutes (quite They live-ish ah? :).
(btw thanks Indiworks for sharing the pill ;)

minDrones © 2004-2009 Luca Bonavita
minDrones written + produced + directed: Luca Bonavita