How do they create the special effects in movies like The Matrix where the camera rotates around a frozen actor?
This effect is amazing to watch! In one commercial, a horse stops in mid-air and the camera pans around it. In “The Matrix,” the technique is used just four different times, but it is so startling that it leaves an impression over the entire movie. In the commercials and in “Lost in Space,” a simpler technique is used. A collection of still cameras (for example, 30) is set up around the object. At the moment when the action should freeze, all 30 cameras fire at once. The images they capture are played one after another to show the rotation. In the movie “The Matrix,” the filmmakers use an extremely sophisticated technique to acco
