Director Of Photography & Motion Control Facilities
Tropism co-founder Robin Noorda has in his company Morphosis quite an unique array of photography, film, animation and scientific equipment that might be of interest for projects of others. If the project meets his interest, these facilities are sometimes involved in other productions, often including Noorda as operator. Inquiries can be made here.
Facilities include a gimbal, drone, infra red camera's, UVIVF equipment, 360 cameras, Kirlian electro-photogram devise, pixelstick, a Sinton 3000 modulair synthesizer and so on. But most specific are the motion controle equipment in combination with the available cameras and lenses from 8mm up to 800mm.
Motion Control
Noorda: "Because of my interest and hands on wish as director of photography in animation and my pioneering work with motion control in the early nineties, it was no surprise that I finally invested in some motion control facilities myself to do animated camera moves, experimental film, time-lapse projects and visual effects."
Below: some motion control shots of the Red end and the Factory Plant stop-motion animation film. The motion control devises used in these shots are: Omnislider for linear track, pan and tilt, Omnihead for rotational pan and tilt, Lensdrive for focus and zoom and the Spinn 360 for the orbital shot. In the shot with Red-end at the brook he also used the slider movement in combination with pulleys to animatie the brook stream as well.
Tropism co-founder Robin Noorda has in his company Morphosis quite an unique array of photography, film, animation and scientific equipment that might be of interest for projects of others. If the project meets his interest, these facilities are sometimes involved in other productions, often including Noorda as operator. Inquiries can be made here.
Facilities include a gimbal, drone, infra red camera's, UVIVF equipment, 360 cameras, Kirlian electro-photogram devise, pixelstick, a Sinton 3000 modulair synthesizer and so on. But most specific are the motion controle equipment in combination with the available cameras and lenses from 8mm up to 800mm.
Motion Control
Noorda: "Because of my interest and hands on wish as director of photography in animation and my pioneering work with motion control in the early nineties, it was no surprise that I finally invested in some motion control facilities myself to do animated camera moves, experimental film, time-lapse projects and visual effects."
Below: some motion control shots of the Red end and the Factory Plant stop-motion animation film. The motion control devises used in these shots are: Omnislider for linear track, pan and tilt, Omnihead for rotational pan and tilt, Lensdrive for focus and zoom and the Spinn 360 for the orbital shot. In the shot with Red-end at the brook he also used the slider movement in combination with pulleys to animatie the brook stream as well.
The equipment
The motion control equipment, a Omnislider, Omnihead, Lensdrive, 360 Spinn, Minijib, BD Slider, Evolution, Dragonbridge and Dragonframe software are a versatile combination for repeatable camera moves in live action, VFX, time-lapse, stop-motion, go-motion and animation.
E.g. a live action camera move can be recorded and played back in stop-motion thus enabling animated characters or time lapse processes to intervene with live action.
Hyper-laps recordings are possible with a Crane 2 gimbal or DJI Mavic drone. A customised pixelstick facilitates unique light-painting posebilities.
Add to these facilities the fast array of some 30 plus lenses starting with the rare Nikkor 8mm f2.8 fish-eye up to 800mm tele. Some of those lenses are very special like the 105mm DC Nikkor, the ultimate bokeh lens, the 24mm tilt shift lens or the Laowa 24mm probe 2:1 wide macro lens or the wides rectilinear ultra wide-angle lens of them all, the 10mm (130º) full frame Voigtländer. Top that with a range of cameras from Nikon and Sony bodies to a custom made infra-red camera and 360° VR camera's, and ones imagination is the only limit.
Shifting perceptions
I researched the integration of motion control camera moves, scaled into table top maquettes camera moves. This enables directors and actors to see a scaled table top scene in motion and thus see the actor walking around in a life size miniature maquette set.
DOP & MoCo
My expertise in this field as a DOP, artist, experimental animator, film-choreographer, designer and my more than 25 years of experience in compositing and motion control, together with my facilities are worthwhile for quite a range of film and art projects.
I adapted the Omnihead motion control set to also be able for shooting complex and ultra high resolution 360 panorama's.
Although the equipment is primarily for our own projects, feel free to contact me if you might need this combination of disciplines and facilities for your project or need any advise in this field. The motion control set is mobile and fully operational on location.
I took my motion control gear for the first time outdoors when on holiday in Scotland. On a nice summer day in Findochty and Portknockie I made some time-lapse shots with camera movements.
The motion control equipment, a Omnislider, Omnihead, Lensdrive, 360 Spinn, Minijib, BD Slider, Evolution, Dragonbridge and Dragonframe software are a versatile combination for repeatable camera moves in live action, VFX, time-lapse, stop-motion, go-motion and animation.
E.g. a live action camera move can be recorded and played back in stop-motion thus enabling animated characters or time lapse processes to intervene with live action.
Hyper-laps recordings are possible with a Crane 2 gimbal or DJI Mavic drone. A customised pixelstick facilitates unique light-painting posebilities.
Add to these facilities the fast array of some 30 plus lenses starting with the rare Nikkor 8mm f2.8 fish-eye up to 800mm tele. Some of those lenses are very special like the 105mm DC Nikkor, the ultimate bokeh lens, the 24mm tilt shift lens or the Laowa 24mm probe 2:1 wide macro lens or the wides rectilinear ultra wide-angle lens of them all, the 10mm (130º) full frame Voigtländer. Top that with a range of cameras from Nikon and Sony bodies to a custom made infra-red camera and 360° VR camera's, and ones imagination is the only limit.
Shifting perceptions
I researched the integration of motion control camera moves, scaled into table top maquettes camera moves. This enables directors and actors to see a scaled table top scene in motion and thus see the actor walking around in a life size miniature maquette set.
DOP & MoCo
My expertise in this field as a DOP, artist, experimental animator, film-choreographer, designer and my more than 25 years of experience in compositing and motion control, together with my facilities are worthwhile for quite a range of film and art projects.
I adapted the Omnihead motion control set to also be able for shooting complex and ultra high resolution 360 panorama's.
Although the equipment is primarily for our own projects, feel free to contact me if you might need this combination of disciplines and facilities for your project or need any advise in this field. The motion control set is mobile and fully operational on location.
I took my motion control gear for the first time outdoors when on holiday in Scotland. On a nice summer day in Findochty and Portknockie I made some time-lapse shots with camera movements.
My most special lens to work with is a bulky seventies vintage fisheye, the famous and heavy Nikkor 8mm f2.8 which I bought on Ebay in the last 7 seconds of an auction of this rare and expensive lens.
BTW, a 8mm Nikkor fisheye was the eye of the HAL computer in Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey.
In terms of resolution it still beats all competitors. And as the hyperbolic projection stretches the perception into extremes, the highest lens resolution and the highest megapixel camera is not a luxury, but a necessity. A proper piece of glass.
More information, click here.
BTW, a 8mm Nikkor fisheye was the eye of the HAL computer in Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey.
In terms of resolution it still beats all competitors. And as the hyperbolic projection stretches the perception into extremes, the highest lens resolution and the highest megapixel camera is not a luxury, but a necessity. A proper piece of glass.
More information, click here.
