Building the Spin Rig! (NexPort BTS Pt. 1)

For our opening "NexPort" commercial at the beginning of SKYWATCH, we built a DIY carbon fiber spin rig to swoop the camera in a 360° arc. Take a look behind the scenes at the concept, planning and construction of this ambitious camera move.
Big thanks to Harry Lipnick, who built the rig: www.harrylipnick.com/
And Ryan Wieber, who inspired the approach: www.ryan-w.com/

[@ChristianTrampenau]

Genius, so well executed and the end result looks so professional.

[@tuperhero]

Inspiring stuff well done, you nailed it. I remember spending days making a DIY cable cam contraption and never actually using it for anything, so congrats on actually going all the way. It's a great opening shot !

[@bigmambaproductions]

the amount of work that went into this short is actually insane so amazing

[@TopChannel1on1]

its amazing how much work went into your short movie, and you can tell by the quality of production

[@cat52]

That Skywatch short film was amazing, and now I want a full Skywatch movie!!! Amazing job guys. Get a full movie script going and pitch it to the studios to make a full movie!

[@brokenstudiotv]

It's so satisfying to watch the process and how it all unfolded. Great job to everyone, let me just say that seeing stuff like this is very inspirational and makes me feel pure joy! Thank you.

[@supafun33]

I think about Ryan's rig all the time. You guys did an awesome job.

[@orenji-ov2yq]

4:20 undertale!!! dont say you dont hear it...

[@jimmac]

Such an amazing shot.

[@austinscherzberg4569]

im impressed by the fact you made that sony look that damn good

[@cote90789]

thank you for sharing! incredible work!

[@askeen20]

This is great! I was wondering how you pulled off that shot, so I really appreciate this video and your prolific use of the word "swoop"

[@jaymata1218]

So well made.

[@BryanHiggins]

Wow Colin, nice breakdown! I remember back in the day speaking with YOU on aim about Icarus tracking software. Haha, good times man, glad to see you doing well!

[@fixstarnumber1966]

Bravo !!! That is an interesting way to film !!!

[@luftballonproducciones3067]

Awesome DIY!!

[@abhayrajeev7216]

This is frickin insane💥

[@mehmetsenacicekli]

thanks colin this is really perfect 💪👏👏👏

[@ge2719]

nice, i thought this would be how youd do it but was wondering how you kept the equipment out of the shot. i guess the answer to that was the easy part :P

[@hamdansajid]

Amazing

[@eurosamsam]

amazing

[@STRASHILA]

Dudes! there are rails for that))

[@Aloewells]

I noticed that effect and just in time, Bullet time came. But Homemade is always versatile.

[@saravanakumar3887]

Great work..\

[@Ephisus]

I started this video thinking, let's see how close this is to project white rabbit. Two minutes in. Oh, yep.

[@Anita-we4vf]

ITEFM beautiful

[@oby1]

I volunteer for whatever next project yo!

[@mugilansupramani]

Good invention but, it could have been done with a DIY U shaped dolly tracks isn't? Could had saved more time in the post.

[@mykalimba]

If you supported the swing arm from the ceiling instead of having it floor-mounted, you could have saved a lot of post-production work.

[@coreyroberson4550]

Not if you count drywall and paint repairs to be post-production work.

[@andywhiteley]

The transition from shot to shot is so consistent, the rotational speed was just guess work by hand?

[@ColinLevy]

It required quite a bit of re-timing in post! Stay tuned for Part 2 in a couple days-

[@andywhiteley]

Colin Levy Clever stuff! Look forward to Part 2!

[@praveenpsg77]

Bro what is the impact of this film? Did any producer contacted you for the feature film?

[@lwir]

4:32

[@azharak5484]

bro u ar omg

[@flaviopresutti]

Wouldn't it have been easier and cheaper to rent rails?

[@giraffeokapi3223]

Waiting for the confused Army (BTS fans)

[@xalener]

why sans

[@berat02xz]

Amazing