This effect was shot in a greenscreen studio. They took two film cameras - one where the effect starts, the other, where the effect ends. In between, they put photo cameras that faced the actor, on a track on which the "camera" later rotates around Trinity. The two film cameras are both running at their fix positions, while all the little photo cameras on the track (in Matrix, they used about 150) shoot a photo almost simultaneously from the first to the last camera on the track, while Trinity jumps.
Later in the computer, they took all those photo shots and the two film-sequences from the film cameras and either put them together in the correct order to a new sequence or they even morphed between each photo to get a smoother rotation...
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From: Milos Paripovic
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: OT: FX in Matrix

Can anyone tell me how did the creators of matrix made the camera rotate around Trinity while in the middle of the jump (at the beginning of the movie ). If you watched music video "Guilty conscious" by Eminem you could see the same effect. I think there is a video about this on Matrix DVD but there is no one in my town with DVD.
 
Thanks,
 
Milos
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