Car Chase Test

One of the scenes in The Big Top is going to be a car chase, so I've been thinking about how to do this. In the first pitch for this film Ceci talked about a big rolling barrel set and so working from there I came up with the idea for a disk set that has three sections and each can spin separately to make each section move at a different speed, to get my head around the concept I made a very simple 3D model of it. Below is my first test of this concept.

The Idea behind this is that the set itself would spin so that we could keep the camera still other than the movements we want. over all this technique would mean we would have much more stable footage, which would not only make the scene watchable but for the pipeline it would make the 3D tracking a lot easier. This shows how I was thinking we would go about it, because of the mixed media nature of the film, all of this would be stop motion with CG characters composited in to the cars. This means that even if we make the cars quite small this set would be very big, I'm expecting about five to six feet across.

I think we should build the three disks each with space in the middle for the next disk, and then ball bearings in a groove under each so that they can easily spin.