• GHB
  • Member
  • Offline
  • Location: USA
  • Joined: March 21, 2012

Topic: Shaky Cam Rig

So I've built a few rigs for various camera movements, and they all turned out pretty great, but when I tried constructing a shaky cam rig I didn't succeed. My idea was to somehow have two plates built on top of each other that would each tilt in a different direction, if that remotely makes any sense. I really love shaky cam, and I want to use it much more in the future, but I'm really not too fond of post camera movement, as it looks so cheap and lazy to me. Has anyone here ever built a successful shaky cam rig that gives pretty fluid movement?

GHB's Website

  • Location: Gravity Falls, OR
  • Joined: February 4, 2009

Re: Shaky Cam Rig

It's called the Manfrotto 410, it is the best tripod head for stop motion ever constructed

Beyond the Eleventh Dimension - Subterranean: A LEGO Cyperpunk - Face animation cutouts

Youtube - Facebook - Twitter

SlothPaladin's Website

  • Location: I'm a very private person
  • Joined: August 12, 2012

Re: Shaky Cam Rig

GHB wrote:

I really love shaky cam]

mini/no

Fancypants did a tutorial on camera movement that includes a bit on shaky-cam.  Honestly, I don't even think you need a specialised rig, since just moving your tripod a bit each time should do the trick.

Retribution (3rd place in BRAWL 2015)

&Smeagol      make the most of being surrounded by single, educated women your own age on a regular basis in college
AquaMorph    I dunno women are expensive
  • Joined: February 25, 2011

Re: Shaky Cam Rig

Whenever I do shaky cam I just move my camera rig a little bit, sometimes propping it up with my hand to have better-looking tilts. I think it could be helpful to have a rig, but I like doing it with my hands better. mini/tongue

TobyMac - Lose My Soul music video - in LEGO!
YouTube | Twitter | Letterboxd

Mighty Wanderer's Website

  • Location: Eureka, California
  • Joined: January 10, 2009

Re: Shaky Cam Rig

SlothPaladin wrote:

It's called the Manfrotto 410, it is the best tripod head for stop motion ever constructed


*Sigh*

...


...


...

*adds to wishlist*

http://i.imgur.com/1jdCsUr.png
YouTube | Twitter | Brickfilm Archival Project
Brickfilms Wiki | BiM: The Documentary

Nathan Wells's Website

  • Location: Mustafar
  • Joined: January 6, 2015

Re: Shaky Cam Rig

In my current WIP project, I simply glued a ruler in front of the tripod set on the table and put the tripod on a piece of cloth and moved it each time by 1-2mm for the horizontal movements. But for all the other movements I just use the measurements on the tripod and move it by a few mm each time as-well. Or as Paladin said, get the Manfrotto 410 or any familiar models of measured tripod stands. 

But honestly that takes way too much time and only for specific scenes, and most of the times you have to redo it because the measurements aren't precise enough and cause ugly shaking once in a while. I know you've mentioned you don't want to do it in post, but Sony Vegas Pro 13.0 offers great new features and incredible convenient methods of doing camera shake/movement/action bumps.

Hope you get the problem solved!

Energetic Fox Studios's Website