Mini Dresden: Nice Tilt-Shift and Timelapse

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The next in our ongoing series of mini-timelapse is mini Dresden. The movie was captured by MoritzHL using a mix of a Canon 400D and a 7D.




It's really nicely done, there is something about timelapse, linked to tilt-shift and an upbeat sound track (Cinnamon Casers - The World is Yours, in this case) that makes such clips so likable.

Tiltshift, City and Robot - RenkeBot Lives

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Tiltshift, 3D Max a city and robot, really whats not to like:


RenkeBot Lives- part2! from Matt Moses on Vimeo.
Created by Matt Moses the city backplates were shot with the Canon 7D and a Tilt Shift lens. Tilt shift lenses give it that "tiny town" look of small scale DOF. Matt built and textured the robot in 3dsmax, and rigged him using CAT - Rendered in Finalrender, composited in Combustion. All three shots took 3 days, including a day to build the robot.

Only only gripe - we wish is was a bit longer, really nicely done.

Miniature Tokyo City Timelapse

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The movie below combines timelapse techniques with tilt/shift and a focus on the city of Tokyo - we like it a lot:



We must get out and do a London version...

Colorama - Tilt Shift - Large and Small

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At the moment our iMac round the back of the office is churning out our first 'fake' tiltshift test. Its been running for 3 days and has given the poor thing a notable level of screen burn, while that processes and we wait for the results, below is how it should be done:

Colorama - Makeover from Upper First on Vimeo.

The 'giant hand' makes for an interesting take on tilt shift movies. Developed by UpperFirst for Colorama, the idea is to create a visually absurd situation using displacement of scale between the people in frame and the giant hand. It is meant to underline the contrast of small and big, where the hand symbolizes the consumers ability to effect the environment and in the extension his or her own environment.

Small Life

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We really need to take two days out and do a tilt-shift timelapse of London, the clip below is both charming and inspiring:

Small Life in Saxon Switzerland from Christoph Schaarschmidt on Vimeo.

Picked up via UrbanTick

Small Life in Cologne

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Ok we know we are meant to be on 'vacation' and away from the blog/work, but this clip is simply too good not to post:

Small Life in Cologne from Christoph Schaarschmidt on Vimeo.

The tiltshift / timelapse movie was created by Christoph Schaarschmidt a media-technology student from the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida, Germany.

Miniature City featuring Vividblaze "Tight Rope (Floor Mix)"

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Many of the tilt-shift/timelapse movies we have featured here on digital urban have been created using a fake title shift effect. The movie below by mockmoon uses a ARAX 2.8/35mm Tilt & Shift lens mounted on a Canon EOS 5DmarkII:

Movie by mockmoon : http://mockmoon.sblo.jp with music by vividblaze : http://www.vividblaze.com

The clip has inspired us to get out the Canon G9, fire off an email to the people behind UrbanTick and sort out our own tutorial and timelapse imagery, more on that in future posts...

Tilt Shift Mini Cities - Scenes from a Rooftop

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Scenes from a rooftop from Paul Johannessen on Vimeo.

Regular readers will know that we are big fans of tilt shift imagery - see our Tilt Shift thread for various movies, photography tips and tutorials. The latest addition above is by Paul Johannessen shot using a Panasonic HVX200, in 1080 using the interval recording mode. The rate of recording was 1 shot in every 4 or 8 fps with the tilt shift effect added in afterwards using a mask and blur.

Stop Motion meets Tilt Shift meets Tracking: Still Moving in London

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Still Moving from mustardcuffins on Vimeo.

The movie above by mustardciffins is a mix of stop motion, tilt shift and tracking techniques. Captured with a Canon G9 its a really nice capture of the urban environment, we are struggling to work out how it was done :)

Picked up via Urban Tick.

Los Angeles Tilt Shift Timelapse

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the east side of Los Angeles on a sunny day from clark vogeler on Vimeo.

The movie above by Clark Vogeler was shot around the Silverlake, Echo Park, Los Feliz, Griffith Park and Downtown areas of Los Angeles using a Nikon D60 with a Pclix intervalometer.

The fake tilt-shift was achieved via Photoshop, some of the interscetions and retail outlets work really well.

Tilt Shift Maker: Free Tilt Shift Image Editing for Mini Cities

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Tilt Shift photography is perfect for creating pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Thankfully you no longer need an expensive lens or a moderate level of expertise with Photoshop to make them thanks to Tilt Shift Maker.

Tilt Shift Maker is a free service that allows you to upload photographs up to 4Mb in size or 4096 x 4096 resolution and set the size/area of blur to create the tilt shift effect. Once your happy with your creation simply click 'download' to get a full size tilt shift image back.

Its a really neat service and completely free, you can use any photograph but oblique angles work well for tilt shift, as such Google Earth or Virtual Earth are perfect for trying out the effect.

See http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

For more examples see our post on Tilt Shift Mini City Videos

TiltShift, Timelapse and Motion Tracking: MapType

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We don't know who its by apart from the link to maptype.com which brings up the logo pictured above but the movie in this post ticks all the boxes - City (tick), Timelapse (tick), Tilt Shift (tick), Motion Tracking (tick) - perhaps we should get out more but its is simply fantastic:


MapType from MapType on Vimeo.
Keep an eye out on maptype.com... could be interesting.

Tilt-Shift Barcelona

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Hope everyone had a good holiday and New Years break, we are just settling back in here at the lab so for a quick morning post take a look below at the tilt-shift movie of Barcelona by joja:


Tilt-Shift Barcelona from joja on Vimeo.

The clip covers 9 minutes consisting of 1884 photographs - that's 198 images a minute.

We do like these tilt-shift city images, soon as time allows we will feature some of London along with the obligatory 'How-To'.

Its good to be back....

Google Earth Miniature San Francisco: Tilt Shift

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We have been quite taken with fake tilt shift imagery recently - its a unique way to visualise the city in model form. Google Earth of course makes the perfect candidate for fake tilt shift images and videos, Inoue_k3D's example of San Francisco is an excellent example:


Flight over Miniature San Francisco (Tilt-Shift) from Inoue_k3D on Vimeo.

Take a look at our previous posts for more info: Tilt Shift: Miniature City Videos and Create a Model Size City: Tilt Shift Miniature Photoshop Tutorial

Tilt Shift: Miniature City Videos

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Tilt-shift miniature faking is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature scale model.

By distorting the focus of the photo, the artist simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered with macro lenses making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is (Wikipedia) and it is particularity suited to cityscapes.

If you can tilt shift a single image then the process is also suited to video clips of the city and the results can be well worth the post processing. The movie below by CeeDee illustrates how using tilt shift urban areas can be made to look like models:


Tilt Shift Test 02 from CeeDee on Vimeo.

The next movie below by Kid Volcano develops the concept with a timelapse tilt shift of a pedestrian bridge in Cape Town:


Tilt Shift Fake from KidVolcano on Vimeo.

The process works with any view captured from an oblique angle - Keith Loutit's example of Sydney is an excellent further example - this time using an actual tilt shift lens rather than faking it in post processing (thanks Bob for the lens info).


Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Finally there is a mini San Fransisco produced by Captin Nod:


Dawn and dusk in mini San Francisco from captin nod on Vimeo.

How do you make these videos? Take a look at our orginal post on tilt shift photography for links to a couple of tutorials and then simply create a action in Photoshop to process all of your timelapse frames before creating the movie.

We really like the effect and time willing we will have a London example online soon complete with a walk through of how it was made..

Create a Model Size City: Tilt Shift Miniature Photoshop Tutorial

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Tilt-shift miniature faking is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature scale model. By distorting the focus of the photo, the artist simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered with macro lenses making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is (Wikipedia) and it is particularity suited to cityscapes.

TUAW have broken form their normal Mac based news to put up a fantastic tutorial talking you through the few simple steps to create your own model city view from almost any imagery.

If you have five minutes to spare head over to the TUAW tutorial

It is also worth looking at the additional Fake Model Photography tutorial by Christopher Phin. The concept is the same but the technique is actually slightly refined and much easier to pick up.

We will be featuring some examples over the coming weeks using GigaPan image capture techniques (more on that soon), if you have a model cityscape let us know..

You can see the title image of Sydney by Becky E in its full glory via Flickr.