Bullet time Matrix effect with 52 Canon 550D’s / T2i’s

Timeslice Films produced a great commercial for the surf company RipCurl. They used 52 Canon 550D’s / T2i’s to create a bullet time effect. Perhaps you remember this effect, which became popular in the movie “Matrix”. It’s amazing. Please also watch the BTS video! Very interesting.

The film:

Behind the scenes:

Press-Release:

“In collaboration with Timeslice Films, Rip Curl took on an ambitious bullet-time campaign shoot in Malaysia’s Sunway Lagoon Wavepool with lead surfers Mick Fanning, Stephanie Gilmore, Owen Wright and Matt Wilkinson.

The revolutionary campaign captures surfing in a way never seen before, with the final visuals baring more resemblance to a fight scene from the famous Matrix movies than a promotional surfing video.

The two-day rental of Sunway Lagoon Wavepool allowed Rip Curl and Timeslice to operate in a more stable environment than the open ocean offers. The Rip Curl surfers were repeatedly towed into the machine-controlled waves by Jetski and their operational space was determined by the 52-camera rig set up in the pool.”