Thomas Lange from TKL recently completed a series of motion control shoots, in several European locations, including Turkey, some of which made strong use of interfacing to CGI. For a soon to be released German feature film, "Bibi Blocksberg" much pre-visualisation was done before shooting. "Bibi" is a broom flying witch, and as the first step, prior to shooting, the post-production company made a pre-visualisation for each scene. Some backgrounds were shot from a crane or by helicopter and then tracked in 3D. They built a 3D dummy model of "Bibi" and animated this dummy to have the best looking flying motion for each shot. From these they got the full motion control moves required by the camera to achieve the shots with the right viewing angles, scales, and movements, so that in the finished shot it appears the girl is flying. For these flying sequences approximately 60 different shots were made, and all the data was transfered to the motion control rig as XYZ data. TKL regularly use Softimage to program in complex moves for the motion control rig, and recently even used this feature while waiting off-set for the crew to finish with another camera unit, so that once the motion control rig was brought onto set, the move would already be set-up.

In Turkey, a more classical motion control shot was required with the actor appearing in shot many times in several different positions in a supermarket. This is very easily achieved by simply repeating the same move again and again. All of TKL's work is done using a Milo motion control rig which is taken from location to location. Below are some shots from the recent productions, showing the Milo on location.