Slit Scan Test

Test inspired by the best parts of 2001

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Slit
• Scan
• 2001
• Experimental
• Animation

[monroetsd]

How did you make this? I really want to recreate the stargate sequence from "2001: A Space Odyssey", but there's so little information online about how to create this effect in animation.

[MGspoon]

Check the other entries under this video. With a completely opaque folder I covered almost all of my laptop screen where I had zoomed in on a image I had constructed for this purpose. Once everything but a thin sliver of that image was covered I shot it with a DSLR like I said. You need to make sure that you will zoom past the slit entirely otherwise you end up with a weird ugly line in your frame.

[MGspoon]

I actually used a DSLR. That way you never have to worry if things don't come out, just press delete. Although for other reason, you should have a film camera. Everyone should, the world would be a better place.

[d3p3ch3mod3]

How? Did you build a slit scan camera?

[MGspoon]

I just used a static camera on a tripod with a zoom lens and shot long exposures (10 seconds. ish) while zooming in. I masked off parts of the screen on my laptop and moved a bitmap image very slowly through the slit.

[peggymount]

Well done. It's a great effect.

[OneEyedGecko]

i sorta understand how to get this in photography but i dont get how to make it an animation. if anyone can explain it to me i would appreciate it very much. theres just not any information on how to do this online.

[Wikigoogtube]

Nice, but the ideal would be the camera tracking instead of the zoom.

[protestifications]

FAIL

[d3p3ch3mod3]

that's brilliant, i want a film camera now