This new site is the essence of what I am striving to showcase here on Flash360.net – a place where panoramas are used as a tool to add interactivity into otherwise “normal” websites.
This site was created by www.onlinemarketingagency using krpano
“It takes you fullscreen (click on “VOLLBILD”) into the main set of the movie where all flash-content is placed on hotspots. It even features a riddle/search game to unlock a room with bonus-material (by finding 5 parts of a magic scroll). Besides navigating within the panorama the user may also use a conventional flash-menu. All panoramas were done in multi-resolution mainly to reduce loading-time. Even if the source photos we have been provided with have been quite low-res (just compressed jpg´s with no floors/ceilings photographed so that the resulting stitches could only become 14000 px wide), I think it´s a nice example of integrating panoramas within a moviesite.”
I hope to showcase more of their work soon 
I like this very much, and as you say, it points to the potential of interactive panoramas becoming more than just showcases for real estate and virtual tours of tourist destinations.
It has some room for improvements, in particular in how the “flat” video and images are not really integrated into the panorama. Since this is a fantasy movie perhaps they could have created some way of truly making it look like these other elements was part of the room as well.
I wonder how much a production like this would cost? You would have to plan for it during both the construction and shooting of the sets.
Cheers,
Kim
Thank you Kim,
the Krabat-Website had to be done with *very* little budget.
Fortunately the movies sets had been photographed by the movie-production-team for reference in a way that we could still use/recycle to stitch suitable panoramas of. Sure it would have given us room to implement further ideas if we would have had the chance to shoot the sets/panoramas ourselves with the direct intention to use them for a panoramic/adventure website – but in this case the photos already had been shot before and the sets were gone when we started doing the website-concept & production.
Best Regards,
Johann