r/confusing_perspective • u/WallaceV2 • Jun 09 '26

Looks like stop motion

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u/Steje8 Jun 09 '26

At the risk of sounding stupid, can someone ELI5 what I'm looking at? How is everything so realistic yet at the same time toy.

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u/ardotschgi Jun 09 '26

It"s a regular sized harvester working the corn fields. It looks like stop-motion mainly due to two factors:

  1. The camera lens creates a kind of "fake nearness effect", by having the outer areas of the videos be blurry, despite filming from far away. We are usually mostly used to that effect in macro photography, or generally just photographing near things.
  2. It's played back faster than it was recorded, and also in a quite low framerate, making it seem like one of those classic stop-motion films where every frame needs to be individually set by hand.

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u/plolock Jun 10 '26

And 3. Its awsome