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    OMG PURPLE FOX! - Extremely...Awesome...Things...
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    How would you like to see the most amazing example of stop-motion animation EVER?


    Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

    There's actually a very, very clever way that he does such complex things with these miniatures. They...aren't miniatures. It's real stuff photographed with something called tilt-shift photography. Then every few frames are removed to give it the stop-motion look, and the contrast is turned up to make the shadows harder.

    That doesn't make it any less awesome to look at, though.
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    skyjay From: [info]skyjay Date: December 18th, 2008 07:18 pm (UTC) (Link)
    Aw man, that's really cool! First thing I thought when I saw this, was "this has to have been shot with a Lensbaby". I knew about tilt-shift for stills, but for video? That lens must have cost a fourtine, but it's the coolest bit of engineering I've seen in a while.
    sciucaro From: [info]sciucaro Date: December 18th, 2008 07:47 pm (UTC) (Link)
    I had a feeling they weren't miniatures and that a camera trick was used. The audience looked way too real in movement.
    hgryphon From: [info]hgryphon Date: December 19th, 2008 09:08 am (UTC) (Link)
    Whoa... I thought he had somehow combined pictures of real people with toys, especially with how some of the dents "appeared" without a visible cause. Maybe more than a few frames missing?
    toumal From: [info]toumal Date: December 19th, 2008 12:44 pm (UTC) (Link)
    Actually, the technique is called depth-of-field-reduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field

    It simulates shooting something very small with a comparatively big lens. There's been a movie of a beach using the same effect some time ago.
    xerxesqados From: [info]xerxesqados Date: December 19th, 2008 03:31 pm (UTC) (Link)
    Yes, I'm aware, specifically tilt-shift photography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography

    I may be a dumb fox, but there are moments when I've done my homework, at least if you read under the cut. xP
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