Thursday, November 12, 2015

Red Bull's Latest Video & Forced Perspective

Red Bull just released a new BMX video, and it plays heavily with forced perspective to add an interesting element for all viewers, BMX fans or not.

Wikipedia defines forced perspective as: A technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking, and architecture.

Here's a picture for example:




and here's a video Arturo showed me a few years ago really highlighting forced perspective.


So after seeing some other examples of forced perspective, here's the BMX video:


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