{"id":1296,"date":"2025-02-23T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2025-02-23T19:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:41:33","slug":"shot-of-the-month-sequence-1-shot-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/feature\/shot-of-the-month-sequence-1-shot-27","title":{"rendered":"Shot of the month: Sequence 1 shot 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strap in, it&#8217;s another mecha shot, this time showcasing the Scorpion\u2019s memorable reveal, as it unfurls from its compact parking stance.<\/p>\n<p>Animator Guen Goik was our heavy hitter when it came to mechanical-creature shots like this. We&#8217;re talking eight legs, two claws, a segmented tail, and a cockpit with independent suspension. It&#8217;s a lot! Tech director Bret Bays built us an elaborate animation rig for the Scorpion that affords its legs 360\u00b0 of rotation, which was critical to allow the sort of sinister arachnid-like movement we were after.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"800\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 800;\" width=\"1920\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SOTM_seq1_shot27.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SOTM_seq1_shot27.mov\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shot of the Month: \u201csequence 1, shot 27\u201d \u00b7 animators: Guen Goik and Jason Dixon.<br>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Were the <em>Akira<\/em>-style headlight streaks really necessary? History will be the judge.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strap in, it&#8217;s another mecha shot, this time showcasing the Scorpion\u2019s memorable reveal, as it unfurls from its compact parking stance. Animator Guen Goik was our heavy hitter when it came to mechanical-creature shots like this. We&#8217;re talking eight legs, two claws, a segmented tail, and a cockpit with independent suspension. It&#8217;s a lot! Tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}