It's a small world afterall - Tilt Shift | The Coffeehouse

Zeo
Channel 9 :)

I think this is one of the neatest video formats I've ever seen:

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2009/10/a-model-day-at-the-park/

I have to admit it would be very cool to see a video like this come out from Microsoft showing all of the people working on Windows...or Xbox or Office. There are thousands of tiny people working to make these huge programs....it'd be cool to see them...

Just thinking.

Harlequin
http://twitter.com/TrueHarlequin

Neat camera trick. I've seen that in photos, never in video before. But I guess this is stop motion, so it is a bunch of pics Smiley

LeoDavidson

Neat Smiley

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to Harlequin

#Oct 1st @ 3:41 PM

You can do it in video, so long as you've got a dSLR that does video (like the D5000) or someone's made a tilt-shift lens for film camera mounts.

It's not a new photographic technique, and I've seen it done on video before, but I'm wary of giving Disney too much credit; remember they are one of the main corporations holding free culture back 50 years.

stevo_
Human after all

Tilt and shift certainly isn't new but I always love to see it, when you get a good shot it looks fantastic.

JPeless

In reply to W3bbo

#Oct 1st @ 3:48 PM

W3bbo, care to explain how Disney is "holding free culture back 50 years?" I am interested in why you think this.

CreamFilling512

In reply to JPeless

#Oct 1st @ 5:28 PM

Yeah, Disney IS free culture.

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

In reply to CreamFilling512

#Oct 1st @ 5:58 PM

http://www.amazon.com/Free-Culture-Nature-Future-Creativity/dp/0143034650/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254450150&sr=8-1

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In reply to Bass

#Oct 1st @ 7:22 PM

Free Culture is also freely available for download under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license: http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/. I've been meaning to read it myself; I have it queued up in Stanza on my iPod, but forgot it was there Wink .

CreamFilling512

In reply to Bass

#Oct 1st @ 7:22 PM

Disney's produced a very large number of consistently high quality films over the past decades. I don't know if any of the characters or stories came from public domain, I couldn't care less. Their animators did some amazing stuff, the attention to detail and the subtle expressions by the characters. It's so much better than anime crap.

It's one thing to ripoff someone's work and sell a shoddy copy. It's another to turn it into a high-quality production and bring it to millions of people.

kettch

In reply to CreamFilling512

#Oct 1st @ 9:39 PM

Last weekend some friends and I went to San Francisco to the The Walt Disney Family Museum. It's a really good example of how the best companies come from somebody's garage. A surprising number of industry innovations came from these guys learning as they went. As huge and evil as the corporation may have become, there is still a fairly rich culture of innovation that is at work.

Ray7

Thanks for posting this. I've never seen this stuff before and have spent an hour just looking at other examples. Brilliant.

dentaku

Yeah, with new cameras like the Canon 5D Mark II SLR it's much easier to make videos with techniques that are more often used in still photography although from the text on that site it looks like they just shot time-lapse with an SLR instead of taking full motion video and just cutting out X number of frames to make it look more like stop motion video. Both techniques work though.

If you take a photo from the right angle you can fake the tilt-shift look in Photoshop using the right type of blurring to simulate a short depth of field.

There are some nice new Windows 7 adds shot on an SLR by the way http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090907/a-taste-windows-7-advertising-to-come/ but I'm not sure if any tilt-shift was used.