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MANHATTAN LOFT GARDENS

Corporate film 2:10 Client: MANHATTAN LOFT CORPORATION Director: UNIFORM Production: UNIFORM UPPER CUT PRODUCTIONS Animation/VFX: UNIFORM www.uniform.net Mark Lee, senior artist at Uniform in Liverpool: "A few weeks ago Laurie and myself spent a day in London to shoot a whole lot of photography to show the amazing views from the roof terrace of the proposed Manhattan Loft Gardens, a luxury 42-story hotel and residential tower. "The problem: We couldn't get high enough with conventional methods. A cherry picker was far too small, and a helicopter couldn't quite fly low enough. We were also right next to the Olympic site and Athletes' Village, so you can imagine security were a bit twitchy. "The solution: a tool we think will fast become the norm in our field, and one which will revolutionize at least a part of what we do -- the UAV, aka the HeliCam. "The clever thing about the HeliCam was that she had a GPS guidance unit which meant we could get her in the correct position, make sure she was at the right height, and lock her into a specific GPS co-ordinate and she just hovered there, accounting for the wind and adjusting herself when needed. "For this job, we strapped a Canon 5D Mk II to the HeliCam and took a variety of shots with different lenses, at three different heights to match the three terrace gardens of the building. "The results were a set of breathtaking images of the capital, in perfect weather conditions -- not a cloud in sight. If you're wondering, yes, we added the Olympic Park in CG. "We were only using the HeliCam for shooting still images this time round, and it did have its limitations, such as having to adjust camera settings on the ground rather than being able to do it on the fly once airborne but the possibilities it opens up are huge. "We also wanted to be able to switch between still imagery and video up in the air, but again this couldn't be done. What it did do well though was feed its stunning views down to a crisp portable monitor on the ground so you could tweak the shot to your heart's content (well, as long as you could before we got a dangerous looking red light and beeping telling us to come back down to Earth before the batteries died!). "Having said that, its battery life was around nine minutes per flight which gave us plenty of time for snapping 360 degree panoramas. "All in all, we had a great shoot, and got everything we needed from the HeliCam. All of the background images we took were composited into our otherwise fully CG film." For Uniform Team: Laurie Jones, Mark Lee, Charlie Pastor, Rob Deja, James Pickford, Andrew Wraithmell, Adam Taylor, Silvia Canu, Rachael Molloy Toolkit 3ds Max, V-Ray, Fusion, After Effects, Premier, Photoshop