but instead of shooting thousands of still images like sam, tony created stop motion in his video camera. we decided to shoot video instead of still photography just because the process is a little easier and quicker to do. each shot is like two seconds long. the strobe effect is what gives you the stop motion look. and then the color correction. we mess with the saturation to make it look miniature and toy-like. and then the lower layer is the one that has the defocus or blur on it that really helps you focus on the subject. tony s bosses at wgn loved the result. their miniature chicago has become a youtube hit. and the station s most popular on-air promo. i think i ve gotten so many hits on a video like this is because people love their city. i mean, chicago s a great town. it s just the pure pleasure
if you guessed model toys, you d be wrong. this is the tilt shift photography. it s a method of where you re actually shooting down at an angle, and it blurs out backgrounds and really focuses your attention on particular scenes and people within those scenes. there s sort of two ways people make these tilt shift images. on one hand, people use actual tilt shift lenses sometimes. but then people started figuring out ways to do it in post production. the thing that makes it feel like toys, it s a combination of two things, really. the first thing is when you see the focus is falling off, that immediately cues you to think that it s small. and the second thing is the acceleration. when you look at things like the boats and the helicopter, they seem to bob up and down. that s what a smaller thing would do. for his new york miniatures, sam used a still camera and normal lens to shoot 35,000 digital images to create his stop-motion effect then played with focus and color in post-pro
we mess with the saturation to make it look miniature and toy-like. and then the lower layer is the one that has the defocus or blur on it that really helps you focus on the subject. tony s bosses at wgn loved the result. their miniature chicago has become a youtube hit. and the station s most popular on-air promo. i think i ve gotten so many hits on a video like this is because people love their city. i mean, chicago s a great town. it s just the pure pleasure of seeing the city look different. so sort of charming and harmless in a way. sam calls his new york video the sand pit. in its first seven months, it has more than 750,000 online hits. i didn t really expect the response to be as big and positive as it has been. it s something i thought would maybe generate interest for me and be popular, but i didn t expect it to kind of explode in
the first thing is when you see the focus is falling off, that immediately cues you to think that it s small. and the second thing is the acceleration. when you look at things like the boats and the helicopter, they seem to bob up and down. that s what a smaller thing would do. for his new york miniatures, sam used a still camera and normal lens to shoot 35,000 digital images to create his stop-motion effect then played with focus and color in post-production. in chicago, wgn tv producer tony litle also thought tilt shift technique would be a perfect way to promote his town and his tv station. but instead of shooting thousands of still images like sam, tony created stop motion in his video camera. we decided to shoot video instead of still photography just because the process is a little easier and quicker to do. each shot is like two seconds long. the strobe effect is what gives you the stop motion look. and then the color correction.
his video camera. we decided to shoot video instead of still photography just because the process is a little easier and quicker to do. each shot is like two seconds long. the strobe effect is what gives you the stop motion look. and then the color correction. we mess with the saturation to make it look miniature and toy-like. and then the lower layer is the one that has the defocus or blur on it that really helps you focus on the subject. tony s bosses at wgn loved the result. their miniature chicago has become a youtube hit. and the station s most popular on-air promo. i think i ve gotten so many hits on a video like this is because people love their city. i mean, chicago s a great town. it s just the pure pleasure of seeing the city look different. so sort of charming and harmless in a way. sam calls his new york video