Q: just wondering, how did you make the globe rotation effect on hotewig? sorry, i can just imagine how tiresome it must be to receive these kind of questions
A: after trying many different strategies, i ended up doing it all with the camera, in a particle system centered on the globe, where the camera was the only particle. in most cases i only keyframed the particle system, and the camera, not the globe. this would be for most things from humans onward. for the earlier shots, a variety of different techniques were being tried. and for some of the north pole shots i may have had to spin the earth separately to avoid going haywire .... or for some of those polar shots i may have actually parented the camera system to another particle system to get a different axis of rotation going