I saw a couple videos where someone continuously zoomed into a digitally painted picture. For example it starts on a beach and it zooms onto a phone on the sand and then you see a house with lots of rooms and it zooms further into another world and so on and on.
How do these work?
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It’s a vector graphic. So instead of individual pixels the file is just coordinates between lines.
It literally is just a giant canvas. The artists starts at either end and simply zooms in/out and draws another image, and rinse and repeat.
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It takes a lot of time and no doubt multiple takes to film the artist going thru their artwork as they have to memorize where they drew. I’ve seen one artist who makes something akin to lyric videos, so each drawing is representing a frame and they zoom in as the song plays.
Example:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT83XFYKe/
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It’s usually one of a few app, they allow you to draw not in pixels but in vectors (so there is no “size” and you can draw as tiny/large as you want), so the canvas is essentially infinite. If you could print one of them out, the size (if wanting the most zoomed in part to be clear) would be the size of a football field or larger.
What you’re really looking at is a a slide show, with *a lot* of slides with very rapid transitions between them. If you look very very carefully certain details far away start “fade in” as you continually approach the point in the distance.
It’s just a bit of slides, each one giving *a little* more focus of whatever is “ahead” of the perspective of the prior image. They’re also not truly *infinite.* If they don’t seem to end they’re really just a loop. Eventually what is “ahead” will be where the video started.
Basically, it’s just a series of images. Each one drawn *slightly* closer to the forced perspective point, and eventually what’s ahead in the distance is identical to the very first image. Then they’re just played in a loop.
It’s a really trippy visual, but if you pay attention, they’re just a series of images which are played fast enough to give the impression that you’re constantly “zooming in”. watch long enough it’ll repeat itself.
Edit to add: human eyes inherently have a “frame rate” limitation. Which is about 60 frames per second. Meaning the human eye can not process changes that happen in less than 1/60th of a second. So if you were to slow those videos down a bit, you would see it as more “chunky”. Like a slide show. Not even “like” a slide show it *is* a slide show (then again, all animation is, inherently). But the transition between “slides” or “cells” is happening faster than the human eye can process that transition, so it just looks seamless.
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