The Sandpit

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.

Original Music: composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong.

Please view in HD and full screen for best effect. For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and workflow, please see here:

http://aerofilm.blogspot.com/2010/02/...

• Category

  Film & Animation

[Evan Richardson]

Or you could use a tilt-shift lens, which is how this was filmed? just a thought

[arnoudmulder]

Not to hard to make:

1 - a very highres camera with infinite focus so everything is sharp

2 - make the top and bottom of the image very unsharp, only 25% bar in the middle which stays very sharp

3 - speed up the framerate

4 - skip frames so a "charly chaplin" effect is seen

[AbsolutelyMintMusic]

amazing

[MrMonkeyMoose]

@jazmemyself ... I do hope you are joking... Or at least being sarcastic

[jazmemyself]

The special lenses are the easy part of making these amazing videos.

Hard and time consuming are the actual miniatures. To create a single life-like tree, you have to make all the leaves -- and the grass, I can't even imagine making so detailed, green and perfectly precise miniature grass. And it looks just like real one, only much smaller.

But making water so realistic? It's still a mystery to me. I once went to Minimundus (a city of miniatures), but the water looked normal.

[Julio Vergara]

This is perfect, thank you.

[rrdudley8]

it was a shift lens

[Minus42Zero]

I love this song

[sosmyley]

Amazing

[MonoFaction]

There won't be one with EA's fuckery.

[MrInSahne]

SimCity 6 :D

[RedeXebluE]

The Mayor should see this.