How to film MINIATURES | Top 10 filmmaking tips

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This is so brilliant, come back to this regularly as a checklist for stopmo so thank you!! 💗

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Tips and tricks. My respects!

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Man, I wish I could do all that stuff! :)

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Great lesson, thanks.

Thank GAWD some people are still filming models. I am so sick of the lack of realism in most CGI today. It's been a lazy curse on most sci-fi for the last 20+ years. BTW, I recognized Fireflash right away since I was fanatical for "Thunderbirds" (and many other Gerry Anderson shows) as a child.

I would like to add one more suggestion that you can use to help yourself out and get around some problems: Mirrors.
If you can not film at ground level, or want to change perspective in the same set without rebuilding it. Also you can use it to avoid blur when you don't have the right lenses available, a zoom lens can then give good and interesting results, even without a wide angle lens.
You can also integrate objects into the set that have a different scale - cleverly prepared, people, or whatever, can be integrated into the miniature scene.

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Thunderbirds was great! 😊 I'm glad nobody ever tried to do a reboot or a sequel.

What about Fusion?

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Good points.

is this what they did with the Nakatomi Building in Die Hard?

Very cool, wish i had you around in 2004 when I did an indi film, we had books then lol, abyway, very cool stuff here TY

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Yo llevo 23 años filmando la vida de 4 átomos. Más miniaturas no pueden ser. Le diré a mis herederos que lo publiquen. Sí, se lo diré.
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This looks so fun!

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For water, add a non-foaming detergent or vinegar. This interferes with the water's surface tension and will reduce the telltale droplets that are present with water at this scale.

Your depth of field and lighting on this makes it look like your head is floating a foot in front of your body.

Loving the 60's thunderbirds

Hey there, great tips. I've been trying to perfect my movies for years and this will help. Would you consider doing a Model Railway Special some day? I'd be interested to see your approach. Lighting question, outside light is always best but not practical for most model rail situations. Would having the lights high up shining down produce the most natural effect or like you said here are multiple lights going to introduce more problems? Thanks Mike

What's the beat camera for adjusting framerates and shooting good high-speed video?

Any suggestions on placement of painted/photographed/not-greenscreen backdrops?

Would I be able to speak to you about potentially hiring you for a project?

You should have elaborated more on the slow motion frame rate subject. To get realistic speed for falling objects Rocks, water drops, colapsing buildings) you need to speed up the frame rate with a factor that is the root of the scale of your models. So if you want a 24 fps movie, and your model's scale is 1/10, the framerate to shoot would idealy be 24 x 3.16 = 76 fps. This would for example make a rock rolling down an incline under gravity look just right. Here again the bigger the model the better, because consumer cameras don't have very much control and range when it comes to frame rates. You can do a bit in post production too.

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I'm not quite sure how I ended up here... But as soon as I saw Fireflash, I was in.... Am I saying it right..? Was she like Concorde, not the Concorde..? Assuming so...

Is there a way to minimize the minimum focusing distance for a lens? Even with my aperture closed, I can only get my miniatures in focus at a few inches from the lens.

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filming with miniatures is one of my favorite ways of filmmaking, its simple yet effective

Very good tips. They helped me a lot in making my own short sci-fi film

I know this is an older vid but something I'd like to add about Depth of Field is to remember that your eyes have it as well and a shot that's 100% in focus might end up still looking like a toy due to this.

This is especially true for larger objects, I remember seeing pictures where they had replaced 2009 Star Trek movie Enterprise design with the classic 1960s series design, while otherwise very good they had problem where replacement Enterprise was too much in focus for something so big (even the classic design was a size of an aircraft carrier) and looked like a model rather then an actual spaceship.

This actually one the reasons bigger is better when it comes to miniatures, you can more easily get a realistic depth of field on bigger models. Even so very good tips and some of those I've found apply to digital models as well.

i would love to see how to add yourself to a miniature set, or diorama .

man your channel inspires me to make my own films

can you make films when your twelve

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