S K Y: GoPro Kerbal Cinematic

[BagelRabbit]

Hi everybody! You may remember this or this. Well, today, I'm taking the cinema-ticity to a new level, and making this video of Jeb's epic journey through the air on a real rocket.

I hope you enjoyed the video! Let me know what you think about it

Have a nice day.

[KSK]

Nice! The cutting between KSP and real life worked really well, and I liked the slightly haunting music too - good choice!

[Xorth Tanovar]

Damn fine work there!

[BagelRabbit]

Nice! The cutting between KSP and real life worked really well, and I liked the slightly haunting music too - good choice!

Thank you very much! I worked hard on getting the rocket's altitude in KSP to sync up properly with the real rocket's altitude, so that everything looked relatively realistic. As for the music, I made it myself. It's one of the In-Game Plugin Songs, only slowed down a bit (I'm still not sure why I did that, but it seems to work fine, anyway.)

The original song can be found here.

I tried to do literally every aspect of this video myself. Thus, I only have to credit GoPro (for the camera), and KSP (for some of the video and the inspiration).

Damn fine work there!

Thanks. I'll do more of these in the future.

[Kawisch]

Quite impressive!

But I wonder how you mounted the GoPro on the vehicle and how you kept the center off mass at the right place...

But anyways I really liked the video.

[BagelRabbit]

Quite impressive!

But I wonder how you mounted the GoPro on the vehicle and how you kept the center off mass at the right place...

But anyways I really liked the video.

The GoPro was flying in its (heavy but protective) case, which has an anchor point on the bottom. I attached a corresponding anchor to a bulkhead within the nose of the rocket, so that the camera was half-inside the craft and mounted securely. I would hate for it to fall out and hit someone.

As for the Center of Mass, I have a special counterweight for the GoPro. He weighs about three ounces, has a magnet on his back that anchors him securely, and is always so happy whenever I get the rocket out.

Here's what he looks like.

You didn't think that I would make this video without flying some facsimile of Jeb, right?!

(By the way, the reason that he isn't the Shapeways model is that it's breakable and expensive. Jeb has enough epoxy on him to withstand launches without breaking, and he also weighs almost exactly the right amount. So, that's nice. )