{"id":1330,"date":"2025-04-20T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2025-04-20T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:03:24","slug":"shot-of-the-month-sequence-1-shot-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/feature\/shot-of-the-month-sequence-1-shot-8","title":{"rendered":"Shot of the month: Sequence 1 shot 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorite shots in the film, because you can catch all the Ottoman family dynamics in just a few seconds: dad is oblivious, his son is carefree, and mom is ever-vigilant for calamity. The Scarab is, as always, lumbering.<\/p>\n<p>Animator Sam Wilson was a force of nature on this one, handling all four of the foreground characters and the mech. It\u2019s the kind of shot you can only pull off late into production, once the animators have familiarized themselves with the characters\u2019 personalities and body language.<\/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\/04\/SOTM_seq1_shot8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SOTM_seq1_shot8.mov\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shot of the Month: \u201csequence 1, shot 8\u201d<br>Animator: Sam Wilson  \u00b7  Background animator: Orestis Konstantinidis<br>&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Shout-out to SFX specialist Sebastian Pfeiffer, who animated that Scarab controller cable by hand. So smooth!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorite shots in the film, because you can catch all the Ottoman family dynamics in just a few seconds: dad is oblivious, his son is carefree, and mom is ever-vigilant for calamity. The Scarab is, as always, lumbering. Animator Sam Wilson was a force of nature on this one, handling [&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-1330","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\/1330","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=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}