Unbelievable!

"Gorgeous, IMO." second that! very impressive camera and editing work!

LEKKER! - A truly, wonderfully crafted piece . . . wonderful - "Full of Wonder"

As a personal aside, I did a visual double take. It will be the same for any other Capetonians!!! Langebaan?! I spent 5 years in Cape Town, "Back in the Day". I used to frequent a well known hostelry - "The Fireman's Arms" - about 500(?) metres from the point where those chaps are sitting on the end of the STILL "unfinished" fly-over - a poignant reminder to us all.

Seeing that, brought it all back . . . .

Grazie

Hey Grazie

Being an ex capetonian I was wondering if the clear sky is post production special effects or was that shot on the day when the sun actually came out in Cape town

Joburger

Thanks for sharing, this is amazing. It's always nice to see something that is genuinely new. I remember the first time I saw those scenes where you "stop time" and the "camera" spins around the actor. I also remember the first time I saw how it was done with a large number of still cameras in a semi-circle firing simultaneously or with a tiny delay to capture some movement.

I would not be surprised to see some of these things in future action movies. Watch for scenes where stuff blows up and the camera moves through the debris towards a point of interest.

Grea camera work and great editing. Thanks again for sharing.

Excellent, inspiring work!

Funny, yesterday I was just looking at some of my kiteboarding footage from last September along hiway 1 north of Santa Cruz, CA. Mine wasn't as good as this, of course!

I had a slightly different take.

I don't disagree with any of the other comments: the camera work and editing are absolutely amazing.

But, at first -- especially given the "tricks" in the opening scenes -- I thought it was all fX: I didn't think any of it was real, or at least, I figured most of what I was watching had been enhanced! So much of modern cinema looks like this, and yet is fake. But, here is something real and breathtaking and amazing and beautifully filmed, and I actually had to -- paradoxically -- "suspend disbelief" in order to believe it, if that's not too convoluted a way to express it.

Oh, and BTW, this is one of the first short films I've seen where the SOUND blew me away even before the visuals took over. The soundstage on that opening ten seconds is amazing.

Okay, how did they do this? Any good reference sites on the Internet that describe this?

(re: the bullet time-like effect)
I believe it's done through cutting out the different planes of depth and then doing camera projections. (Ack, not the greatest explanation.)

So you split up the image into two or more planes.
One is the surfer (sorry, probably not the right term).
The other is the ground. There will be a hole there so bits of it will be cloned/painted in.
Those two planes are stuck into a 3-D environment.

There are probably 2 camera angles. (More angles is better but I didn't see that many cameras.)

The camera move is done in a 3-D space (kind of like 3-D compositing in Vegas). Blending between the 2 camera angles is probably some combination of optical flow + paint work. The in-between frames are made up via optical flow (similar idea to face morphing stuff if you've ever seen programs which morph one face into another).

Certain semesters of fxphd.com go through this. I don't know of any free resources off the top of my head. But it's likely a combination of camera projection and optical flow + paint work. There is some camera projection information on Google.

2- If you look in the background of the shot I think you will see that it doesn't look right.

Wow!
Personally, I would LOVE to know how to Shoot & Edit like this.

I wonder... is this all done by an Editor?
a Compositor?
a 3D FX Artist?
all of the above?

sync, you can bet the farm on the bottom one, IMO. The water droplets were 3D ( not to mention the text ), the multiple occurrences of the person in repetition was some pretty decent compositing, and the timing and flow, that was the editing.

Dave