Brilliant yet simple Spedometer speed

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:11 pm

I was reading some of the old threads lookign for cool effects I could try, and I read a thread about how to make it look as if your car was going really fast while looking at the spedometer. Everyone was suggesting CGI, or whatever, and I realized a simple way to do it for real without breaking laws

Jack up the car and step on it.

This has been a public service announcement.

Thank you.

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:38 pm

hahah i think i did it just as easy using CGI. That could burn a lot of gas.

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 9:35 pm

Yea, but it wouls be realistic

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 10:57 pm

But expensive, but at lest there is another way.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 3:33 am

There are always other ways

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:53 am

2nd_recon's way is probably a lot cheaper than buy new software to create that effect. hahah

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 1:00 pm

Wouldn't work on mine, because of the dual-slip differentials on the All-wheel drive! The spedometer has a digital display as well, like the Knight Rider car.

You could always just go to a car breaker's yard, and either get a dashboard with instruments, or the speedo itself. That way when you're filming, just cut close-ups of the speedo into the footage. They always use cuts in movies when they're showing car speed.

If you were using the dash and speedo of a VW Beetle for instance, all you'd need to do is connect a drill to the end of the Speedo-hook-up cable, and before you know it, you'd be doing over a 100 easily!

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 3:28 pm

100+ in a beatle. Thats scary