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Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,806
edited November 2008 in The Clubhouse
This dude uses what's known as tilt-shift video in which one focus object is in sharp focus while the rest of the frame goes increasingly out of focus the farther from the focus object you get.

It creates an optical delusion in the perspective that a kid would have playing with toys on the floor. Pretty neat stuff and it makes things as large as monster trucks look like toys.

These are monster trucks. I had a hard time figuring out if it was toys or not first. Best clue is to watch the people and then you see that they really are real. He has a few more there that are neat too!

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In case the embedding didn't work: http://vimeo.com/2317118


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  • doggie750
    doggie750 Posts: 1,160
    edited November 2008
    yep, you are bored....
    it was nice though
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited November 2008
    I totally thought those were toys like you were saying! That's a pretty sweet video and good luck at work today. :p I'm stuck with you.
  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited November 2008
    Like reverse claymation. Nice.
  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited November 2008
    Thats pretty cool.
  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited November 2008
    With that title I was ready to see some ****.....
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  • pearsall001
    pearsall001 Posts: 5,066
    edited November 2008
    I'm off!! :D Neat video, it will definetely fool you at first.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited November 2008
    Ricardo wrote: »
    With that title I was ready to see some ****.....

    Me too :D
  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited November 2008
    That was pretty cool.
  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,986
    edited November 2008
    I thought it was claymation with stepped intervals done REALLY well and that you were just F'n with us. Come to think of it, I still think you are F'n with us........

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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,425
    edited November 2008
    My 5-year old son gives his stamp of approval.

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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited November 2008
    Isn't that just time lapse video?
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited November 2008
    Awesome looking. Thought they were toys as well. The people look like claymation with how they move.
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited November 2008
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Isn't that just time lapse video?

    I am going to let what you posted sink in for a bit and hopefully you realize what you just posted before I begin deriding you for your "Yogi Berra moment" there.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited November 2008
    It's filtered right?

    Do I come off as a moron to you John? I don't just click and start jacking off.....do you? I'm just asking questions ****.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited November 2008
    dorokusai wrote: »
    It's filtered right?

    Do I come off as a moron to you John? I don't just click and start jacking off.....do you? I'm just asking questions ****.

    OK, fine, how on God's green Earth can you have "time lapse video"? Video is a continual information feed. Time lapse photography, yeah but "time lapse video" is redundant. Video is, by default, time lapse. That's the whole point of video. Time lapse has nothing to do with filtering. Tilt shift does.


    The video is made using tilt-shift photography that was taken with a camera set up for tilt-shift picture taking. The pictures are then strung together in series and displayed consecutively like a stop-motion photography film.

    From Wikipedia:
    Tilt-shift photography refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium format cameras. In many cases, it refers to tilting the lens relative to the image plane and using a large aperture to achieve a very shallow depth of field. The technique relies on the Scheimpflug principle and usually requires the use of special lenses.

    “Tilt-shift” actually encompasses two different types of movements: rotation of the lens, called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Tilt is used to control the orientation of the plane of focus (PoF), and hence the part of an image that appears sharp. Shift is used to control perspective, usually involving the convergence of parallel lines.

    On time lapse photography:

    From Wikipedia again:
    Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby each film frame is captured at a rate much slower than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of high speed photography.

    Processes that would normally appear subtle to the human eye, such as motion in the sky, become very pronounced. Time-lapse is the extreme version of the cinematography technique of undercranking, and can be considered a borderline form of stop motion animation.


    In either instance, it isn't actually video that is being recorded but successive photographs that are then manipulated into a video after they have been collected. So calling it tilt-shift video is inaccurate on my part.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited November 2008
    Oh, excuse me John....I'm not as Wikipedian as you. Please forgive my general observation and simple question to a posted thread, in a free for all forum. I'll stick to the intellectual level I'm more adept at participating in....which is the retarded level apparently.

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited November 2008
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Oh, excuse me John....I'm not as Wikipedian as you. Please forgive my general observation and simple question to a posted thread, in a free for all forum. I'll stick to the intellectual level I'm more adept at participating in....which is the retarded level apparently.

    Has anyone seen my baseball?

    Stop crying. I referenced Wikipedia because it was explained better than I can do it off-the-cuff. I also stated I referenced Wikipedia because I've been accused of posting things in the past without citing a reference and then trying to pass it off as my own personal knowledge. Therefore everything I post that didn't come out off my own brain gets citations for credit. Believe me, it gets old, quick. Especially when no one else bothers to verify anything they post before posting it.

    I understand you were asking a question. I found humor in your post because I picked up something that I thought was obvious. Sorry for pissing in your Wheaties, I thought of all people here you would be the least likely to take something so trivial so personally.


    If it makes you feel better, you can set up many modern digital video cameras to do time-lapse photography. It's harder to do it with something that uses magnetic tape for a recording medium rather than more conventional film.
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited November 2008
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited November 2008
    Jstas wrote: »
    Stop crying. I referenced Wikipedia because it was explained better than I can do it off-the-cuff. I also stated I referenced Wikipedia because I've been accused of posting things in the past without citing a reference and then trying to pass it off as my own personal knowledge. Therefore everything I post that didn't come out off my own brain gets citations for credit. Believe me, it gets old, quick. Especially when no one else bothers to verify anything they post before posting it.

    I understand you were asking a question. I found humor in your post because I picked up something that I thought was obvious. Sorry for pissing in your Wheaties, I thought of all people here you would be the least likely to take something so trivial so personally.


    If it makes you feel better, you can set up many modern digital video cameras to do time-lapse photography. It's harder to do it with something that uses magnetic tape for a recording medium rather than more conventional film.

    Me crying? LOL....you're just an asshat but that's why I like you.
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