Super simple camera crane for sweeping shots
Using some 2×2 lumber, scrap bolts and metal, and the stand from a work light, the folks behind colvins.ca built this DIY Camera Crane.
Photography & Video
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
DIY digital view camera rig
Flickr user FiveseveNp90 is building a view camera attachment for his digital camera.
Jetpack costume prop from junk
Backyard FX have been running auditions for a new host of the show. I’m pretty impressed with many of the entries. Not only are the hosts surprisingly good, but the production values are fairly high, and the projects they document, decent. Here, Mike Smith and his robot sidekick, Tec, show you how they built a […]
At long last – a top-down camera view!
Achieving good camera position for soldering and various tutorial shots has always been quite a challenge for me. I’ve tried Gorilla-Pods, table leaning tripods, and a few different DIY designs with varying amounts of success. Oddly, I never considered my own gooseneck/panavise hack as a possible solution – I suppose the weight of the camera […]
Weekend Project: Evil Mouse Prank
Take control of your co-worker’s cursor and drive ’em nuts. Thanks go to John Edgar Park for the original article in MAKE Volume 15. To download The Evil Mouse Prank video video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Evil Mouse Prank article in MAKE Volume 15 and you can see that […]
Favorite no-budget films on MAKE
Over the years, we’ve posted a lot of low/no-budget sci-fi fan films, stop motion videos, Lego “brickfilms,” and other movies lovingly made by makers with a fun idea and a home video camera. We decided to look through the site and gather up some of our favorites. Collaborative Star Wars fan film Amazing sci-fi short […]
For the Love of Sprog from The Martin Brothers
In response to our DIY Movie Making theme, John Martin, of Reallusion, makers of the machinima/animation software iClone, sent us this adorable piece he did using the software he and his brother James developed. As he put it in email: “iClone and a crew of two. No render farm. No team. No limits, with an […]