DIY – Dolly Creation Part 2

DIY – Dolly Creation Part 2

on May 26th 2010 with 18 comments

In the first half of this two part tutorial, we’re gonna talk about the dolly that we use and explain why. Tomorrow we’ll put it all together and show how good the end result can look. Enjoy!

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Pixel Mobb is a small team of creatives who love to push limits, work crazy hours, and passionately discuss ideas. Become a fan on Facebook or follow us on twitter. Peter J. Normandia is a director/editor, and Mitch Martinez is a DP, and owner of Stamphill.com.  

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  • marcel

    nice tut on DIY.

    question, did you shoot the part 2 with some other cam or your iPhone or did you get a bad conversion?
    the quality is a lot worse than part 1.

    keep up the DIY’s !

    thx.

    • Pete

      Shot with the HVX200, same day as 1. Must be a bad conversion. Not sure what happened. Thanks!

  • Masoud Pourgholami

    Very good design and shots, would you please to send me some detail or picture from joints and tires?
    I want to build one for myself.thank you regards.

  • ShoeToad

    What a great tutorial!

    I’m gonna build one my own! Ty

  • siakal

    Thanks a lot guys for those tutorials!
    If you can make a tutorial about “low cost” jibs, it will be great!

    Thanks again

    • http://pixelmobb.com pete
      Author

      low cost jibs….i think that may be something to look into.

  • Abojung

    Seriously! any questions?

    ok, honestly, whats the exact cost of all the equipments that was shown in part 1 and part 2??

  • http://www.timcraftvideo.com/ Tim Craft

    Thanks for the great info! Any chance of a tutorial on how to make a homemade dolly?

  • Anthony

    Nice Tut!
    More of this, please!

  • Osvaldo_Tampico

    Hahahaha if someone tells you can’t get good shots with a home made Dolly tell them to “Shut the f”#$$% up” Hahahaha I liked that comment! It’s totally true!

  • daniel

    Hey nice tutorials you guys!

    I have a question for a new tutorial. I would like to know how you can make a vertical crane shot moving up, while looking straight down on a subject. If there is anyway to do it without a professional crane and using a dslr camera for the job i would like to know.

    Here is an example:
    Look at the first shot.
    http://www.buf.com/visual_effects.php?display=movie&id=882

    regards Daniel

    • http://pixelmobb.com Pete
      Author

      I couldn’t get the link to work. It was just a still image. However, your shot description would seem very challenging to do with out a Jib. Let me look into it and I will see what we can come up with.

      Thanks for the interest!

  • http://www.vimeo.com/telli Telli

    Useful tut, but the fields lines are absolutely annoying on this second part of the tutorial. And of course, useless for web videos.

    • http://pixelmobb.com Pete
      Author

      I’m sorry, what do you mean by field lines?

      • http://www.zebravideo.ca videographer toronto

        Great video,thank you

  • nouveau

    these type of posts are seriously one of the best things for aetuts to feature.
    thanks for this! more please!
    readers range from novices to pros, but these diy tips are seriously for everyone.
    you can be a professional, with experience with expensive dolly setups and tracks and so on, but i can bet you not many of them can afford these same expensive setups they have knowledge with.

  • http://www.badmashfactory.com Rohit

    Please gove is more details about more on the curved PVC tracks how it is made cos that is not explained here. Thanks :)