{"id":2718,"date":"2013-07-06T08:07:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T13:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:53:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:53:02","slug":"redshark-news-amazing-cgi-shot-thats-not-cgi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2013\/07\/06\/redshark-news-amazing-cgi-shot-thats-not-cgi\/","title":{"rendered":"RedShark News &#8211; Amazing CGI shot&#8230; that&#8217;s not CGI!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsharknews.com\/production\/item\/871-amazing-cgi-shot-that-s-not-cgi\">http:\/\/www.redsharknews.com\/production\/item\/871-amazing-cgi-shot-that-s-not-cgi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we saw this shot we thought it must be CGI. The thing is, how do you get a high quality camera 500 m above a rocket launch pad, and keep it there throughout the launch. This is the sort of thing you&#8217;d normally have to do, painstakingly, with animation and compositing<\/p>\n<p>But this is real. We don&#8217;t have any real details except that this is was taken by a Hexacopter at the recent launch of the SpaceX Grashopper spacecraft, which is designed to take off and land at exactly the same spot &#8211; something of a remarkable achievement in itself.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eGimzB5QM1M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.redsharknews.com\/production\/item\/871-amazing-cgi-shot-that-s-not-cgi When we saw this shot we thought it must be CGI. The thing is, how do you get a high quality camera 500 m above a rocket launch pad, and keep it there throughout the launch. This is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2013\/07\/06\/redshark-news-amazing-cgi-shot-thats-not-cgi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}