Here is the layout of the first set built to create my jar animations.
I tried to incorporate the concept of the lighting tent but due to a lack of a lazy susan (and not wanting to pay $40 for one) I went budget. It involves, a curled up piece of paper for background (without edges), a metal frame drilled and fixed to a plastic breadboard, a platform made of a sticky-tape dispenser inside, a shoelace, 3CD's, tape a Blu-tak (shown below) which attaches via a drilled hole in the breadboard surrounded by another CD, baking paper wrapped round the top and sides and three spotlights tied to my tripod with shoelaces above the baking paper.
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| Jar within my lighting tent. |
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| Side-view showing curled paper backdrop. |
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| Close-up of the rotating platform (with 10 degree outline for still movie test. |
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| My home made "lazy suzan". |
The resultant video produced with this method left a lot to be desired, particularly from a wobble perspective. I'll post the video, and what it looked like after post soon...
On a side note, this video is of one of the jars but using still images rather than video... You can see my template with every 10 degrees showing but worth a look anyway:
