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I'm just curious, how do you do the hitchcock effect with legos like the one in Philip Heinrich's Unrenewable?
It might be quite useful to me and other brickfilmers.
Well, if you make minor changes to the sets (change the direction that the door opens, etc.) and black and white footage might help.
I think Thunderbolt is referring to the Vertigo effect which is created the same in a LEGO film as it would be in a live action film.
You dolly the camera away from the subject, while zooming on the subject, so that the subject remains the same size but the background stretches away from the subject. Both lens and digital zooms will work, but in order for digital zooming to look good you mush shoot at a resolution that is greater then the resolution you master your film at (DSLR cameras with high resolutions will be much better for this then anything limited to 720p, like the QC 9K)
I think Thunderbolt is referring to the Vertigo effect which is created the same in a LEGO film as it would be in a live action film.
You dolly the camera away from the subject, while zooming on the subject, so that the subject remains the same size but the background stretches away from the subject. Both lens and digital zooms will work, but in order for digital zooming to look good you mush shoot at a resolution that is greater then the resolution you master your film at (DSLR cameras with high resolutions will be much better for this then anything limited to 720p, like the QC 9K)
I believe if you have optical zoom there is no need to shoot at a higher resolution, right? As of now I haven't seen a "proper" brickfilm with this effect used (correct me if wrong) Very interesting.
-Tejas VIM
I think Unrenewable accomplished it well.
You dolly the camera away from the subject, while zooming on the subject, so that the subject remains the same size but the background stretches away from the subject. Both lens and digital zooms will work, but in order for digital zooming to look good you mush shoot at a resolution that is greater then the resolution you master your film at (DSLR cameras with high resolutions will be much better for this then anything limited to 720p, like the QC 9K)
The Quickcam 9K can actually shoot to up to 1600x1200, so with the webcam you have some wiggle/zoom room at least. 
I believe if you have optical zoom there is no need to shoot at a higher resolution, right? As of now I haven't seen a "proper" brickfilm with this effect used (correct me if wrong) Very interesting.
-Tejas VIM
That is correct
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