360 Animation Ideas

For my third year film George and I have had an idea to do 360 degree stop motion animation. This immediately threw up many pipeline issues, however as far as we can see no one else has done it, and we can see why. We are thinking of using my 1 sheet pitch as our story basis and so we will need to be able to cut green-screen elements out and composite in some 3D rendered objects. first things first, we needed to be able to shoot basic stop motion in 360 degrees. I bought a very cheep 360 lens that fits on my phone and started playing with that.

Above is the raw picture that this lens takes, from there we had to unwrap it and then work out how to view it in 360.

Above is what this picture looks like when we unwrap it in a very simple program called 0-360. from here we applied this to a cylinder in Autodesk Maya and animating the camera as a way of veiwing it in 360. below is the result of that test.