Infinite zoom ???
by Gollux
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Feb 14, 2007 at 7:10:09 pm
I need to do one of those zoom shots from outerspace to an individual house. Actually it starts with a view of a U.S. State and then zooms to street level. What's the best way to do this? Nest comps inside of comps and collapse transformations?
Re: Infinite zoom ??? by grafxflow on Feb 14, 2007 at 9:01:15 pm
Hi,
I know what you mean. I have done this on my showreel. Zoom in on the earth, then country, then city etc. I had to create several different tiffs each one zoomed in a little more. And in the centre was a more detailed part of the next image. When zooming in and mixing between images I motion blurred the edges to get around the pixelated image.
Re: Infinite zoom ??? by josh on Feb 14, 2007 at 9:06:11 pm
This will be easy you don't need a bunch of comps. Do it the way google does.
Get a few photos gradually getting closer to you target. Scale them up quickly, fade between them, add motion blur, a little camera shake.
I know that nasa has a google earth like program that is open source (including the images), where you could get some pics. Search for "worldwind" (the program) and "blue marble" (one of the composites images available). That's where wikipedia gets all it's satellite images (everything nasa is public domain). So if you can't find it, ask a wikipedian...
