Khan Academy / Pixar Aerial Video by Me

Spent a couple of hours helping make this video, and got two seconds of screen time.  According to the film people, that's a pretty good ratio!

And of course always sweet to do something to help the Khan Academy.

Anyways, quite proud to have done a real bona fide bit of aerial camera work.

I'm embedding the YouTube page, and the Khan page is here.  If you wanna skip the boring parts and see my  two seconds of fame (starting at 0:46), go here.

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Great Video from Jeremy Vickery

Colleague and friend Jeremy Vickery put this video together.  Sadly I wasn't able to go to the Mount Diablo fly-in, but it looks like they had a great time.  Jeremy was one of the first people I knew that got a quad primarily for video and photo use, and I've always admired his eye and use of aerial perspective.


Pixar Drone Meet from Jeremy Vickery on Vimeo.

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Maya Camera Control With Arduino-Based Sensors

My friend and colleague Adam H took my Arduino class this last winter.  He's done two projects so far that relate to his work as a layout artist.  Here's his project that controls Maya with a motion tracking sensor.  Very neat! 

 Here's the sensor.  I think it's the 3-axis gyro module from Sparkfun.

And here's Maya... as you can see in the video below, moving the sensor moves the camera.  I'll try to convince him to write this up a bit more when it's finished.  He's also got a neat two-axis camera dolly he needs to write up!