Animation: Dinosaur Party

Rae, Nick, and I had this idea to create a 360 experience. We wanted to simulate what it would be like if dinosaurs were to have a house party.

We started by shooting a 360 video using the Ricoh THETA V. Unfortunately we encountered some issues during shooting. The tripod that we have was stuck in an angled position.

Tripod stuck on an angled position

Luckily, we were quick to adapt and used a kitcher towel roll as a stand to hold the camera. Thankfully, it worked well.

After we shot the background video, we started working on animating the assets that we have. Previously, we had bought assets in the form of PNG images of dinosaurs. We then used the puppet tool to animate it, making them dance.

Animating the assets and putting them in the background video

After animating, we used the Ricoh THETA app to inject 360 metadata so that it will be viewable on youtube. We then uploaded it to youtube and voila! The result can be viewed below.

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