Back in 2008, photographers discovered when you use the Photoshop filter called Polar Coordinates, it could transform your panoramic photographs into a magical, new world. Over time, those standard map projections have made their way into our design softwares. Ever since humans have been designing maps, we invented a multitude of map projections to represent our world. This sent me down a rabbit hole of learning more about the origins of the format and how it works.ĭistorting, or unwrapping, a spherical image into a flat plane isn’t a new concept. I wanted to dig into the process of how you could convert any 360 video into a tiny planet. GoPro even has a handy VR plugin for Adobe Premiere which allows you to create the effect.
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For Theta V owners, Karen Cheng even wrote a nice tutorial on how to do it. My trip to the Pirámide del Sol (shot with Theta V and converted to tiny planet)īoth the Rylo and Insta360 cameras have the same tiny planet feature. By pinching the screen, you can distort the video to the point where it looks like you are walking on a alien-looking, tiny planet. On my recent vacation in Mexico I started to capture everything in 360, because why not? What better way to relive a moment than being able to fully immerse yourself in that snapshot in time? As I used the Theta V’s iPhone app to upload to Vimeo, I discovered how easy it is to distort the perspective of my video. Cameras like the Theta V, Insta360, and Rylo have really lowered the barrier to entry by making 360 capture very affordable and easy to use. In the past couple years, capturing videos in 360 has become more and more accessible. The rest of this post is a deep dive into the history of tiny planets and how to make your own. The “Tiny Planet” effect is where most of my time was spent making the music video. The end result is a wild ride that I can’t stop watching. Each of their work on their own are incredible, but when showcased in this new format, it creates a whole new experience.įrom top left to bottom right: Zurich 2.0, Inside the Sound: Planes, PLANT ROOM, The Giant, Escape Route, ODYSSEY VR: A Spacetime Trip, HELVETIA BY NIGHT, Inside the Sound: Voices, Emergence VRĬonceptually the idea behind this video is simple: take a bunch of 360 videos, apply a “Tiny Planet” effect on them, supercut them together, and add some fun music by Uncle Skeleton. The above music video, Tiny Universe, is a collaboration with seven Vimeo 360 creators and Vimeo Creator Labs. After watching their work many times, I found myself really wanting to see their work from a new perspective - and without the need for a VR headset. If you browse through Vimeo’s 360 Cinema channel on Vimeo, you’ll find a plethora of talented 360 creators whose work ranges from music videos, time-lapses, to computer-generated worlds. This 2D distortion has aptly been named “Tiny Planet.”
They’re showing the world from a different and very distorted perspective.
Ever since I got my hands on a 360 camera, I became obsessed with how people are leveraging the format to create content that isn’t immersive at all.
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