Infinite zoom ???

[Paul Coull]

Hi,

I know what you mean. I have done this on my showreel. Zoom in on the earth, then country, then city etc. I had to create several different tiffs each one zoomed in a little more. And in the centre was a more detailed part of the next image. When zooming in and mixing between images I motion blurred the edges to get around the pixelated image.

grafxflow

grafx that flow!

[Josh Johnson]

This will be easy you don’t need a bunch of comps. Do it the way google does.
Get a few photos gradually getting closer to you target. Scale them up quickly, fade between them, add motion blur, a little camera shake.

Done.

[Josh Johnson]

HA someone beat me to it

[Alexander Gao]

Thing is, where do you get the pictures from? (I won’t be able to get to outer space any time soon!)

Thanks,
Alexander Gao

“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”

[Alexandre Van de sande]

I know that nasa has a google earth like program that is open source (including the images), where you could get some pics. Search for “worldwind” (the program) and “blue marble” (one of the composites images available). That’s where wikipedia gets all it’s satellite images (everything nasa is public domain). So if you can’t find it, ask a wikipedian…

good luck

[Robyn Rhodes]

thanks, esp AVS for great sourcce recommendation

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