Comment by hamburglar
8 hours ago
> Pretty sure most of this could be filmed with a camera drone and preprogrammed flight path
This is a “Dropbox is just ftp and rsync” level comment. There’s a shot in there where Rocky is sitting on top of the spinning blades of a helicopter and the camera smoothly transitions from flying around the room to solidly rotating along with the blades, so it’s fixed relative to rocky. Not only would programming a camera drone to follow this path be extremely difficult (and wouldn’t look as good), but just setting up the stunt would be cost prohibitive.
This is just one example of the hundreds you could come up with.
Drones and 2d compositing could do a lot. They would excel in some areas used in the video, require far more resources than this technique in others, and be completely infeasible on a few.
They would look much better in a very "familiar" way. They would have much less of the glitch and dynamic aesthetic that makes this so novel.