What the hell is that thing? It’s amazing. I was watching it through this post on my RSS reader, so I didn’t see the blurb below. I thought it was some kind of genius horror movie trailer. Amazing.

I take it it’s just a combination of the usual way these effects are done (a ring/row of stills cameras, all taking a picture from every angle at the same time), combined with some brilliant compositing of the various sections.

FUCKING amazing, though.

That’s the thing that gets me - the way all the bits are strung together to make it look like one camera is continuously moving through the entire scene.

There’s a making of as well, which is entertaining in its own right… but makes it clear as mud.

>I take it it’s just a combination of the usual way these effects are done (a ring/row of stills cameras, all taking a picture from every angle at the same time),

Thinking back to how it was done ten years ago in The Matrix, all the still cameras were aimed perpendicular to the direction of motion of the finished shot’s viewpoint. There are bits of Carousel where that technique could have been used, but it also features moments where the viewpoint is moving “forward”. Those are the bits I find really clever, because they can’t have used a trail of cameras all pointing forward, because “the next camera along” would block the view!

I don’t know if that description makes sense, but my point is: I can’t work out how it was done!

(And it’s all been made just to sell 21:9 TVs…)

First time I’ve seen anything on screen in a long while, in this increasingly blase era of computers-can-do-anything-now, that’s truly left me baffled as to how it was done. Intriguing, mysterious and very pleasing; thanks!

> There’s a making of as well, which is entertaining in its own right… but makes it clear as mud.

Ah, just seen this, and knowing the technique does spoil it rather a lot. It’s not what it seems, not the technique of those old Lottery adverts in the early 90s, nor the Matrix, nor the sequences used in parts of that Human Body series years ago. This is, as one of the youtube comments says, a “good fake” - but I guess it doesn’t make it any less visually impressive. I so desperately wanted for it to be accomplished time slice camera work though.