EYE CANDY

That was really cool.

Really interesting to see what normal life looks like through this perspective. 

Too bad they couldn't miniaturize the urine smell. 

Anyone else wonder if that was the cash cab minivan at 2:56? 

Those night shot TS were particularly neat looking with the longer exposure. 

i dunno, I think the people ruined the tilt shift in this one... for me anyway 

i think there was just too high a framerate with people in the picture 

The helicopter scene with people looks incredible.

I also like the wind on the water moving the silt around. nice touch. 

So, could someone use an opposite effect/tech/whatever and make miniatures look completely full-sized? Just think of all the [good] Godzilla movies we could have! 

Can someone explain to me why this works? Not how the camera is set up, but why this perspective makes it look like miniatures to humans? Is it a combination of the framerate and the blur on the outside or something? 

It's a blur on both the top and bottom which fools you eye into thinking you are farther away from the focal point. 

and how real the surroundings are...

your brain loves to be tricked. 

New York never looked Better! 

The shots with people so close that you can clearly define them kinda ruined the perspective a bit. Further away it worked really well and yes, the night shots were particularly cool. 

My first thought. 

Yay for tilt shift! Shame about the music though :( 

was that real? 

It's nice to see more people doing this sort of thing. 

I was just overcome with a feeling of how tiny we all are. Just busy tiny little creatures with our little ant hives and any jobs and ant machines. Hurrying back and forth in our tiny little ant flying ships.

Kinda depressing looking at it that way really. 

poker56 said:

was that real?

Yes, it is real. It's stop-motion photography using a tool called a tilt-shift lens. If you want to see some really great work, watch the videos created by this guy:

http://vimeo.com/keithloutit/videos 

Working link:

http://vimeo.com/keithloutit/videos 

Music was awesome 

made me pop in GTA IV 

Love it
The audio was jerky though, so I muted it and played some Santana and it matched well. 

I loves this stuff 

I absolutely love this stuff. Never gets old to me. 

the helicopters are awesome!!! 

Throughout the course of the video I went from, "wow tiltshift is really cool" to "i guess tiltshift is dead for me" 

That's crazy how much that blur does... if you take two pieces of paper and cover up the top and bottom to just show the unblurred middle part then it just looks normal (although sped up) 

EvilPescado said:

That's crazy how much that blur your brain does... if you take two pieces of paper and cover up the top and bottom to just show the unblurred middle part then it just looks normal (although sped up)

 

DREW ALMIGHTY said:

It's a blur on both the top and bottom which fools you eye into thinking you are farther away from the focal point.

I think it's fooling your brain into thinking you're much closer to small things. It's because we're used to seeing shallow depth of field when things are closer. When you're far away, more distance is in focus. So the weird mix of both shallow depth of field and being far away makes it just look like you're close to miniature things. 

does the video never load for anyone else? 

Some FazeR said:

does the video never load for anyone else?

Vimeo is pretty craptacular at times. Try hitting up the download link on the page for the full HD MP4. 

Dunno why, but tilt shift has become passe for me. Probably just seen it too many times. 

DeportFrostbaks said:

Dunno why, but tilt shift has become passe for me. Probably just seen it too many times.

It's a fairly specific effect; once you've seen it, you've seen it. I think the trick now is going to be in finding a way of using it in an unexpected way. I'm totally working on that right now. 

mediaphile said:

It's a fairly specific effect; once you've seen it, you've seen it. I think the trick now is going to be in finding a way of using it in an unexpected way. I'm totally working on that right now.

Ants. 

Elephants 

Platypus'. 

Liberty city never looked better. GTA 5 graphics never looked better.