Interactive cartoon destruction and an epic Rube Goldberg machine, all in a 360 Video at 4K.
I love the creative and technical possibilities that YouTube 360 videos have opened up, so I thought I’d have a go at making one.
Best watched on a mobile device with the YouTube app.
The challenge with creating a narrative rather than a panoramic view is to guide the viewer in the right direction of where the action is. I decided to use a Rube Goldberg machine to focus the action in a mostly linear direction. The viewer is of course free to look anywhere though!
Apart from the character animation, the entire movie is a MassFX physics simulation. It took several hundred simulations before everything finally worked.
The sequence is entirely created in 3ds Max, rendered using Redshift 3D renderer, and put together in After Effects with the Skybox plugin from Mettle.
The unwrapped frame. (He’s about to push the red button, which would be unwise…)
Without Redshift, it would not have been possible to render the whole thing in 4K. Or at least, it would not have finished rendering for some years…