The Japanese Tradition -SUMO-

[syara8]

面白いｗ

[ConfusedSponge]

This is so cool and so hot at the same time!

[lovefromzoo]

miniature effect!

[tatcHe313]

Oh my god the music.

[Yagihige]

0:44 Takamisakari rules!

[tattivalenti90]

they look like bugs fighting for their territory xD

extremely cool

[dsjjsd]

aww damn, i thought it was going to be one of those japanese culture parodies...

[piyopiyo1007piyo]

コマ送り動画みた～い♪すごい)^o^(

[tsukiomilover]

woah! they look unreal! :0 awesome!

[kikyou88]

このミニチュアみたいな可愛さｗ

土俵から落ちちゃった子供力士を抱え上げて元の場所に戻す力士さ­んが優しくて好き

[clambaek]

Wondering what the fps is? It looks pretty smooth, did you just use the video mode and cut out some frames?

[mdadnan]

Fight at 1:12 is toooo funny.... look closer!

[TelevisualFilmes]

Great job!

Team Televisual

[KKj987365]

NO NO NO THIS IS A COMEDY!!!!!!!!

Can't you see that a guy hit BALLS and grab opposer's MAGE (hair)? LMFAO

1:19

This is a well made comedy.

[56456ik]

こう見ると、海外での「わざとらしいＳＵＭＯ」はあながち間違っ­て無い感じだ。

って弓取り早いｗｗ

[regerabit]

I rotfled at the fight from 1:13 XD

[skelanth]

Not the videos I was looking for, but, I figured why not watch in case it's good. And it is! Very well done. I've been to several Sumo competitions while I visited in Japan, and they are really something else. Surely never have I seen sumo so sufficiently summarized as so seen in this scene! ^_~! Thanks for making this!

[TheTofuGod]

one wordd xd

[vamtire]

they look miniature!thumbs up!

[supercomputadora]

tremendo

[iSanity00]

1:16 that guy got skills.

[MrSnickerdoodlebutt]

@iSanity00 haha looks like it was a comedy performance and what followed it was a bunch of kids trying to take some sumos out... probably some kind of half time show :)

[flamingspinach]

This is not The Japanese Tradition.

[z32o]

Nice footage and production. o/

[xchosen123]

almosr looks like claymation when speed up

[bearman83d]

Very cool. :) Minus for the extremely repetitive music loop though

[slodkasuczka1983]

Jestem pełen podziwu i dodam że od dłuższego czasu też nad tym pracuję ale chyba mam słaby sprzęt

[konpeitou0]

0:38からのはロボだなｗ

[gramogu]

@konpeitou0 高見盛は遠目からでも本当にすぐ分かるなｗ

[Komodoensis]

Fantastic :)

[norisaurus]

力士がめっちゃかわいい！

[saiko911]

@norisaurus sumo wrestlers are considered kawaii in Japan?

[Aronikun]

Nice big 浣腸 「ＫＡＮＣＨＯＵ」 (Translation: 1000 years of pain by a hand clasped, double fingered enema), right at the end. LOL!

[PianoScience]

It looks like they're clay figures like in Robot Chicken.

[saiko911]

I study film but I don't really understand how this is done technically... does the camera take less frames per second or what?

[MissQuade]

@saiko911

Ehm, yes. A normal camera takes about 25 shots or frames per second, and by merely limiting down those shots to i.e. one shot every two seconds, you get a film that seems 'sped up'. That also explains why those old black and white movies seem very fast; they didn't know how many frames perr second were needed for the eye to pick it up as natural.

You really study film?

[saiko911]

yeah, maybe I didn't express myself too clearly. I'm familiar with the concept of frames and speeding up. What I meant was, how does it have this stop motion effect, because the motion doesn't appear like normal fast forwarding, but it looks more like clay figures in a cartoon.

[MissQuade]

Normal fast-forwarding stuffs double or triple the amount of frames in a second - that it why it seems sped up in the first place. It's a matter of speeding up through more frames per second, or speeding up through more second per frame (still get it? xD)

So that's why it looks different from the technique used for the sumo video. Stop motion uses 12-15 images per second, because 25 is just too much and you can't really make that subtle changes on clay figures. 12 frames is enough then.

[saiko911]

so the camera is programmed in this video to take 12 frames per second and it creates a sort-of artificial movement illusion? was that about right?

a thought that pops in my mind when looking at this is that maybe the time between frames is uneven. for example the camera takes 12 frames per second but it does so in the first half of the second and takes no more frames in the other half of the second.

[MissQuade]

No, in this movie they definitly took one shot /every couple of seconds/. A sumo match takes a long time, too long so show entirely on Youtube so they filmed it this way. The technique you mentioned would give a rather smooth video for half a second, and then suddenly skip half a second. That's not how they do it.

[saiko911]

yeah I was just trying to give an example to what I mean by "uneven", because I've done some fast-motion myself and this looks somehow different.

[bangoker]

Thats a combination of things, one the Tilt Shift effect, that make things looks like a model/ maquette. Thats done with special lenses or postproduction.

Second, if you just speed up somthing it just look like normal fastfoward, however, if you speed up, and chop some frames off you get a more stiffy animation looking style, like King of The Hill's intro.

You could combine both and get something like this :P

[saiko911]

@bangoker

so how hard is it to do it in post? I see there are some tutorials in youtube about doing tilt shift in photoshop but for video - do you need some very specific software to do it or can you do it with common video editing programs like Final Cut Pro, After Effects or Sony Vegas Pro?

[MrAlanWentworth]

The photographer who created this has done a lot of work using tilt shift lenses. I'm pretty certain this was shot with a current generation dslr using a tilt-shift lens and time-lapse photography.

Love the visual effect here. But I strongly dislike the audio track.

[hellzBrother]

Nice stop-motion :)

I really like photography and this is awesoome :D

and the music is good too.

[slimvictor]

That was soooo weird. But funny!

[ultimate6662007]

nice tilt-shift!!

[newsbattery]

I like it. Good idea, good filmed, good music. Congratulation.

[21kaikin]

hhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaa

[dogstyle2222]

I laughed so hard and I'm not sure why

[ZaMoogleSamurai]

Great video! Congratulations for developing it so neatly!

[mistertimjohnson]

This is very cool. I'm wondering how you mount the Schneider lens on the Canon body?