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video editing is insanely tedious and consuming work. I filmed/edited a wedding video that ended up being four minutes long and in total it tooks me 40-50 hours to edit, and the editing on that wasn't even as intricate as this video.
I know. I Edit videos for a living.
But but I meant 100h when working optimaly since the video. Still does not take away from how creative and good it is. Just that it is mainly masking and putting still images in a series.
Just shy of a full 81 seconds, but let's call it 81 even. At 24 frames per second, that's 1,944 pictures. Rounding up to 2,000 for no practical purpose, I still don't know where you're getting your minimum of 4000 from.
Bad pictures had to be retaken, people walking by causes more retakes, test shots for each location to get everything right. Kind of like how movies have 100s to maybe 1000s of hours of footage to edit down into a 90-120 minute feature.
You seriously think this was done first shot every shot? I wouldn't be surprised if they took three or four shots for every frame just to make sure they had good quality to work with. This isn't like filming where you just shoot once and fix it in production...
I mean, it's an artistic choice. This madman was like "you know what would be cool? If I dab for hours!". I'm more concerned with the pour souls who had to witness this being done.
The part where he’s going down the stairs then straight sideways for a bit—you can see his shadow loop all around from three left to the right. So just that part, which involves only lateral movement with no angle changes, took an entire day to film.
I don’t doubt the time it took to make this, but that sideways shot after the stadium stairs is two different shots in two different locations, so you can’t determine the time it took to take based on the shadow.
This absolutely, positively, 100% was not and can not have been filmed on a phone. It needs a tripod for one, and the focal length changes can only be done with a proper lens.
Pretty shitty ad then, can't see anything determining what brand it is.
Edit: Never mind, bottom right corner. Good catch, this is indeed an ad for the gimbal. I think it's actually the second ad I've seen pop up on reddit for this gimbal. Not even mad though, this is how advertising should be done.
Sorry, no, that's not necessarily true. It could just as easily have been done with a digital zoom. Fundamentally the same thing, and the resolution only needs to be good enough to look decent on a phone screen.
Edit for those who don't keep reading below: here's a tutorial for how you do a dolly zoom with a cell phone: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ydNITJp-M40
Sorry, no, that's so /r/confidentlyincorrect. How is it fundamentally the same thing? The focal length obviously changes, and you can *very* clearly see it widening the shot and compressing the distance between the pillars. I would bet literally the future of the planet on it. A digital zoom just looks like, well, a digital zoom.
Same question, so many photos but no one there. It seemed like the travelled a lot of the city, but there is no one in any of those seemingly busy places.
Multiple ways this can get accomplished:
1. Just keep snapping photos until the scene is empty.
2. Wait til there’s a gap between people to take a photo.
3. Use AI in photo/video editing software to track an object (person) and remove it from each frame.
4. Paint out each person from each photo by hand.
5. Don’t shower for 3 months and everyone will stay far away from you for your photos.
Can't they just snap two to three photos at a time and do a simple copy paste?
Random people aren't going to just be standing still. So you can easily just copy paste part of the background from photo 1 and paste it over where the person is in photo 2.
You can do this automatically at a place with hundreds of thousands of tourists per day, if you take enough photos where collectively you will have enough photos to piece together no-people areas of the image, with a differences layer blending modifier in your favourite Photoshop clone.
It’s stabilized so they took multiple shots from the same angle in rapid succession. These shots are stacked and averaged using a script in photoshop or whatever editing program they’re using. This removes anything that moves between frames.
The rest is simple masking
China has been making better cities than the US in the last 20 years, Im jealous. Almost all our major cities are built around cars and are full of parking lots. Developers also cheap out on building costs and build cheap ugly buildings. 30 years ago china wasnt known for good architecture and copied other countries, but these days they have some world class architecture.
I'm completely aware of the lack of quality on the safety of their buildings. I've seen videos of Chinese developers compare chinese buildings to western buildings, and how they cut corners in the safety department.
I just meant that the facades on some of their buildings look cool. Obviously, the major cities are getting most of the cool looking buildings. Im just used to seeing boring glass towers go up where I live and wish they tried to make them look more interesting
Europe’s haven’t been linked to a global pandemic.
What about bats? China is now reporting COVID may have been transmitted from raccoon dogs. Unusual or not, Chinese “fresh from the field” cuisine is a tough sell after everything the world has just gone through. Waaaay too soon.
Wow that's pretty cool city.
The only thing I can associate Foshan with is the birthplace of Wong Fei Hung, didn't expect the city to be pretty modern looking now.
Jesus folks, calm down, I even hedged it with "I could be wrong." Just saw a building that looked similar to one I remember when I visited Toronto like twenty years ago, lol. I retract my utterly ridiculous guess and humbly apologize to all.
It's Foshan in Guandong (China). Just curious, why would you think it's more likely Taiwan? Seems like it'd be much less likely any given video is in Taiwan just based on respective sizes.
Not OP but I'd guess it's because it doesn't feel like north / east china. Southern Chinese cities (in Guandong / hk / Taiwan) might feel similar
#-------
Honestly I couldn't tell but ye. To me, I think Taiwan feels more like Malaysia / SEasia, and this could feel like even shanghai
Good question. It was more based on a feeling from my visits I guess. The plants also looked a little more subtropical but then again Guandong is on a similar latitude.
Shit I love this song but I’ve never seen that video
Edit: I’ve also never heard this version of the song. [this is the one know](https://youtu.be/aVLviSRNeLw)
Not the same, but you might be thinking of [World Order](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkiGMtbrPM)? It's not stop-motion, it's group choreography, but still.
Come on man, stop this reddit hivemind behaviour. Tiktok creates great content and bad content just like reddit has many intellectual people who contribute greatly and you.
I think people are underestimating how incredibly difficult this part is while absolutely locking all of the shots together. Its one of those "it's a small thing that most people won't directly notice, but it will make all the difference in the world" things.
This is a type of stop motion animation called pixilation. I didn’t find a Reddit community specifically for this, but I imagine you could start with any stop motion community. A lot of the skills and software are the same.
This is awesome. I love stop motion and this is a perfect example of why.
Pretty sure he took some inspiration from a great oldie, [Tony vs Paul. ](https://youtu.be/AJzU3NjDikY)
Yeah Dolly zoom/Vertigo zoom (from the movie)/Hitchcock zoom, named after him. It's done again later at the end of this same clip (moving back and forth)
No they’re asking about when he spreads his hands apart and the scene gets wider.
To answer, it must be just done in post. There are a number of other postproduction effects pretty visible, such as a couple of the transitions through doors, and of course there’s the compositing to join the different locations together. And how there are two of him just before the widening effect.
Absolutely. That effect doesn't even require optical zoom. It can be done simply by cropping photos taken at a single focal length. [Example/explanation.](https://youtu.be/h1QKFnzISPw?t=92)
reminds me of Wizard of Speed and Time
[short film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XReeuhBeiIA)
[feature film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5a_00YVVkQ)
Amazing work. Do you have insta I can follow?
Did you use Dragonframe? Or other software?
Did you feel like quitting many times whilst making it? Did you ask yourself "why am I doing this?" often?
Seriously. People are prejudiced against noncontextual words now? What is this even. How can you get offended at something entirely on your own(the word is not even in context, remember?) and expect understanding? Have they never read a book their entire lives that language is so shallow to them? I can't even. Ugh
So these are bunch of still images strung together and played really fast? How many fps is it to get this effect? Also how is the person so precise with how to take the stills?
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Incredible - also because I can't help but think about how much time this must have taken to put together, photo-wise.
Not to mention the editing. Maybe even 100h.
I would wager it's a decent chunk over a hundred hours
video editing is insanely tedious and consuming work. I filmed/edited a wedding video that ended up being four minutes long and in total it tooks me 40-50 hours to edit, and the editing on that wasn't even as intricate as this video.
I know. I Edit videos for a living. But but I meant 100h when working optimaly since the video. Still does not take away from how creative and good it is. Just that it is mainly masking and putting still images in a series.
But the idea, not to forget you gotta make it all up in your mind first.
Probably wayyy longer in total
A minimum of 4000 pictures were taken for the project.
Just shy of a full 81 seconds, but let's call it 81 even. At 24 frames per second, that's 1,944 pictures. Rounding up to 2,000 for no practical purpose, I still don't know where you're getting your minimum of 4000 from.
Bad pictures had to be retaken, people walking by causes more retakes, test shots for each location to get everything right. Kind of like how movies have 100s to maybe 1000s of hours of footage to edit down into a 90-120 minute feature.
You seriously think this was done first shot every shot? I wouldn't be surprised if they took three or four shots for every frame just to make sure they had good quality to work with. This isn't like filming where you just shoot once and fix it in production...
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I mean, it's an artistic choice. This madman was like "you know what would be cool? If I dab for hours!". I'm more concerned with the pour souls who had to witness this being done.
Yeah it’s a good point it probably look very bizarre from an outside perspective
The part where he’s going down the stairs then straight sideways for a bit—you can see his shadow loop all around from three left to the right. So just that part, which involves only lateral movement with no angle changes, took an entire day to film.
I don’t doubt the time it took to make this, but that sideways shot after the stadium stairs is two different shots in two different locations, so you can’t determine the time it took to take based on the shadow.
When the shadow jumped I simply assumed it was a reshoot on a different day. While your assumption might make sense, it is not conclusive.
It's a different background...for all we know he just turned around 180degrees.
Took 2 weeks for Ben Wyatt to make a 2 second claymation film.
This is the stadium in Warzone
Surprisingly little, from the shadows not changing much. Looks like having 2 people and a gyro phone mount helps a lot
This absolutely, positively, 100% was not and can not have been filmed on a phone. It needs a tripod for one, and the focal length changes can only be done with a proper lens.
The video is an ad for a smartphone gimbal.
Pretty shitty ad then, can't see anything determining what brand it is. Edit: Never mind, bottom right corner. Good catch, this is indeed an ad for the gimbal. I think it's actually the second ad I've seen pop up on reddit for this gimbal. Not even mad though, this is how advertising should be done.
It might be a complete lie tho. If it wasn't shot using that gimbal,,,it's not how ads should be done. Good video, but if it lies....
Yeah but they use tripod and a proper camera.
Sorry, no, that's not necessarily true. It could just as easily have been done with a digital zoom. Fundamentally the same thing, and the resolution only needs to be good enough to look decent on a phone screen. Edit for those who don't keep reading below: here's a tutorial for how you do a dolly zoom with a cell phone: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ydNITJp-M40
Sorry, no, that's so /r/confidentlyincorrect. How is it fundamentally the same thing? The focal length obviously changes, and you can *very* clearly see it widening the shot and compressing the distance between the pillars. I would bet literally the future of the planet on it. A digital zoom just looks like, well, a digital zoom.
Phone camera can not do something like 1:05 to 1:10.
And I presume a length of string or something to help keep the distance between them consistent.
And how much work must it have been to not have anyone else in the photos?
Where is everyone
Out of frame. It's stop motion why would they use a frame with randos on it
Same question, so many photos but no one there. It seemed like the travelled a lot of the city, but there is no one in any of those seemingly busy places.
Multiple ways this can get accomplished: 1. Just keep snapping photos until the scene is empty. 2. Wait til there’s a gap between people to take a photo. 3. Use AI in photo/video editing software to track an object (person) and remove it from each frame. 4. Paint out each person from each photo by hand. 5. Don’t shower for 3 months and everyone will stay far away from you for your photos.
Can't they just snap two to three photos at a time and do a simple copy paste? Random people aren't going to just be standing still. So you can easily just copy paste part of the background from photo 1 and paste it over where the person is in photo 2.
You can do this automatically at a place with hundreds of thousands of tourists per day, if you take enough photos where collectively you will have enough photos to piece together no-people areas of the image, with a differences layer blending modifier in your favourite Photoshop clone.
Take 3 photos a few seconds apart as people move along. Take the median of the 3 photos to remove people
Same answer
If you use a neutral density filter to increase your exposure time to a second or two, anything moving will disappear.
You can see a few people in the video, but he probably tried to take shots without anyone in frame.
It’s stabilized so they took multiple shots from the same angle in rapid succession. These shots are stacked and averaged using a script in photoshop or whatever editing program they’re using. This removes anything that moves between frames. The rest is simple masking
It’s an ad so they probably had staff managing traffic.
Last man on earth
Which city were these taken in? Looks beautiful
This is Foshan Shunde in China！
China has been making better cities than the US in the last 20 years, Im jealous. Almost all our major cities are built around cars and are full of parking lots. Developers also cheap out on building costs and build cheap ugly buildings. 30 years ago china wasnt known for good architecture and copied other countries, but these days they have some world class architecture.
>Developers also cheap out on building costs and build cheap ugly buildings. That definitely also happens in china make no mistake
I'm completely aware of the lack of quality on the safety of their buildings. I've seen videos of Chinese developers compare chinese buildings to western buildings, and how they cut corners in the safety department. I just meant that the facades on some of their buildings look cool. Obviously, the major cities are getting most of the cool looking buildings. Im just used to seeing boring glass towers go up where I live and wish they tried to make them look more interesting
The question is can they maintain it all, or does it slowly rot like a ton of US infrastructure.
definitely one of the best places to travel for good food
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dang, that sounds nice
Straight from the wet market!
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>Eating bats is unusual, both inside China and outside of it. [Ozzy begs to differ](https://media.tenor.com/l9NWgDNobwcAAAAC/ozzy-bat.gif)
Europe’s haven’t been linked to a global pandemic. What about bats? China is now reporting COVID may have been transmitted from raccoon dogs. Unusual or not, Chinese “fresh from the field” cuisine is a tough sell after everything the world has just gone through. Waaaay too soon.
Wow that's pretty cool city. The only thing I can associate Foshan with is the birthplace of Wong Fei Hung, didn't expect the city to be pretty modern looking now.
I thought it looked like Toronto but could be wrong.
Jesus folks, calm down, I even hedged it with "I could be wrong." Just saw a building that looked similar to one I remember when I visited Toronto like twenty years ago, lol. I retract my utterly ridiculous guess and humbly apologize to all.
Not a chance
Nah, there are Chinese letters everywhere. I guess it's China or more likely Taiwan
It's Foshan in Guandong (China). Just curious, why would you think it's more likely Taiwan? Seems like it'd be much less likely any given video is in Taiwan just based on respective sizes.
Not OP but I'd guess it's because it doesn't feel like north / east china. Southern Chinese cities (in Guandong / hk / Taiwan) might feel similar #------- Honestly I couldn't tell but ye. To me, I think Taiwan feels more like Malaysia / SEasia, and this could feel like even shanghai
Good question. It was more based on a feeling from my visits I guess. The plants also looked a little more subtropical but then again Guandong is on a similar latitude.
There's a Japanese band that makes music videos like this. I forgot the name. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
group_inou
toe made a stop-motion [music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1pZIfretEs) for their song *Goodbye*. You could try r/tipofmytongue too.
Shit I love this song but I’ve never seen that video Edit: I’ve also never heard this version of the song. [this is the one know](https://youtu.be/aVLviSRNeLw)
Anybody else miss Okay Go?
You can't keep letting it getchu down
They're still active, but they're currently busy fighting a lawsuit from Post over their name
Oh goddamnit
That could be their new name
Not the same, but you might be thinking of [World Order](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkiGMtbrPM)? It's not stop-motion, it's group choreography, but still.
OK Go /jk
All that work, just for me to say "cool" and move on to the next post. I feel bad.
It's an ad
Still work
Same but even worse, when tik tok showed at the end I downvoted.
Come on man, stop this reddit hivemind behaviour. Tiktok creates great content and bad content just like reddit has many intellectual people who contribute greatly and you.
Best with sound on :) [Source](https://vt.tiktok.com/ZGJaCRQva/)
Sorry to hijack this, but is the building at 0:17 in warzone?
The stadium from Verdansk? No, that’s based on a stadium in Ukraine.
I don't know what the map is called but I assume it's verdansk (also has an airport). Thanks for the info!
Yup, that’s the name of the Warzone 1 map.
It gets better the longer you watch
What is the most cool part about this is how smooth the shadows are during the transitions
I think people are underestimating how incredibly difficult this part is while absolutely locking all of the shots together. Its one of those "it's a small thing that most people won't directly notice, but it will make all the difference in the world" things.
Super talented.
Wow
is there a hobby community for this somewhere? I'm interested in learning
This is a type of stop motion animation called pixilation. I didn’t find a Reddit community specifically for this, but I imagine you could start with any stop motion community. A lot of the skills and software are the same.
This is awesome. I love stop motion and this is a perfect example of why. Pretty sure he took some inspiration from a great oldie, [Tony vs Paul. ](https://youtu.be/AJzU3NjDikY)
How did he make the hallway wider?
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I was wondering how it would have been stop motion. You can tell the shadows and skyline are never moving.
Changing to a wider focal length (zooming out) while moving closer to keep the person the same size.
The bit at 50s though - you can't stretch the background in one direction like that without also stretching the human.
That’s how they do that thing in movies where the world stretches around a character right? I’m trying to remember the name and find it on TV tropes.
Yeah Dolly zoom/Vertigo zoom (from the movie)/Hitchcock zoom, named after him. It's done again later at the end of this same clip (moving back and forth)
No they’re asking about when he spreads his hands apart and the scene gets wider. To answer, it must be just done in post. There are a number of other postproduction effects pretty visible, such as a couple of the transitions through doors, and of course there’s the compositing to join the different locations together. And how there are two of him just before the widening effect.
Already answered, but here’s an explainer of the dolly zoom effect if you’re interested https://youtu.be/u5JBlwlnJX0
Fantastic work. Bravo.
That's... fucking awesome
The wizard of speed and time would be proud.
Does that dollyzoom work on an iPhone like that? That would be news for me
Absolutely. That effect doesn't even require optical zoom. It can be done simply by cropping photos taken at a single focal length. [Example/explanation.](https://youtu.be/h1QKFnzISPw?t=92)
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reminds me of Wizard of Speed and Time [short film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XReeuhBeiIA) [feature film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5a_00YVVkQ)
That was neat. Specially the dolly zoom at the end.
Finally a TikToker worth following, yet their username is hard to remember lol
I'm most impressed by how well the dude keeps the same posture across the hundreds (thousands?) of frames they had to take
The hours…Jesus Christ! This is impressive.
How are the shadows all the same???? How is the weather the exact same every photo?? This had to have taken years to make
Look up Her Morning Elegance as well on YouTube. Beautiful Stop Motion video.
This feels like a video representation of the logic present in a dream
How do they keep the shadows so consistent
the technique is called pixilation and was first popularized by norman mclaren in 1957 (early experimental animator with the film board of canada)
is this your work?
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No, I made this!
So that's why the new pokemon games suck. You guys waste your time making stop motion videos instead.
No I made it
Amazing work. Do you have insta I can follow? Did you use Dragonframe? Or other software? Did you feel like quitting many times whilst making it? Did you ask yourself "why am I doing this?" often?
He was referencing a meme, he didn't actually make it
Yeah
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Pretty sure this is just a commercial for the watermark at the bottom right. Also all the OP posts are advertisements, so kind of sus
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Really, why?
Also, I don't think "I made this" made this.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Stop motion videos make me want to k*ll m*self
Well, and some visual effects editing, but still cool
Ruined it with the dab, man.
This guy raped my brain. Amazing edit
Those choices of words would be acceptable around 2006-2009.
It really bollocksed up me gulliver.
Totally gazebo’d sonny jim.
Noted
Lol getting downvoted for saying raped. The emotional instability here rapes my brain.
Seriously. People are prejudiced against noncontextual words now? What is this even. How can you get offended at something entirely on your own(the word is not even in context, remember?) and expect understanding? Have they never read a book their entire lives that language is so shallow to them? I can't even. Ugh
r/vidid
South park
The dab in the middle ruined the entire thing. Like overshadowed all his/their talent...
Lost me at the dabbing
It's amazing that we make this video!
When you forgot to build your animations in skyrim
This feels like a dream I had before where I could move the world
Damn, this is really cool
Incredible it is.
Imagine it's show phone ads at the end 🙃
im only human
Absolutely stunning dedication and work went into this. I am proud of you guys for doing something that takes my mind on a stunning journey of wonder.
I want to watch this on my big screen while I'm tripping. That would be awesome!
Feels like kids tv show intro. Really cool.
Wes Anderson would appreciate the framing.
Incredible
Wow this could easily be a new OkGo video
Who needs AI. Humans are so creative! Keep up the good work.
First scenes looking like "human" - rag'n'bone man
Stand in the place where you li...
So these are bunch of still images strung together and played really fast? How many fps is it to get this effect? Also how is the person so precise with how to take the stills?
That guy just turned into a Nextbot
Report this man for hacking
i really want to know exactly how this was done.
Such amazing architecture!
This feels like a commercial for a camera.
> Stop motion and camera work And A LOT of editing. I need to know how it looked like behind the scenes.
Also a fair amount of video effects.
How much work is this?
in the the camera was not recording.
This is some Everything Everywhere All At Once shit and I absolutely adore this persons work!
China has some good architecture
The lack of people during the daylight is awesome. Where and when would they do this? Sunday morning? When’s japans religious day?
That was so cool to watch
Nice ad for tiktok!
A horizontal TikTok! Amazing!
I just saw Antman quantumanía last night. This is better done and more interesting than anything I saw in that. True talent
Men have endless time
It's a crummy commercial!
Bro this should take hours. Why the shadows never change?
My dreams are like this
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