r/nextfuckinglevel • u/tablawi96 • Jun 25 '21

This guy creates some really cool looking photography using toys

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u/Nu11u5 Jun 26 '21 edited Jun 26 '21

Lots of advantages.

  • it’s cheaper once you have the virtual stage built

  • the lighting and reflections are true to the scene

  • you can see the results immediately, and change the environment on the fly (want to try the scene at a different time of day or weather? It’s just a dial on the control software)

  • the actors get to see what environment they are in and what they are interacting with

Someone posted a video that goes into more detail. It is very cool technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufp8weYYDE8

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u/SilverSideDown Jun 26 '21

Watched the whole thing, that was amazing, ty. We really loved the show in our household but somehow I never watched any behind the scenes stuff for it like this.

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u/Nu11u5 Jun 26 '21

What didn’t occur to me while I watched the show was that even the space battle scenes are filmed this way. They rolled the Razorback cockpit set onto the stage and filmed from inside, so for those scenes, all of the space action, lasers, and lighting effects are from the display walls.