What are Time-lapse videos?

Time-lapse photography is an interesting technique that records a scene or objects that has a slow   state-of-change and turns it into a video that plays back in high speed. The easiest way to do it is to have your camera stationary on something that changes slowly (e.g. clouds, plants growing, etc) and start taking series of photo for hours or even days. Hours and hour’s worth of photos are compressed into a video with merely few minutes playtime, thus creating a time lapsing effect.

In another word, it allows us to see the progress faster without having to wait along the actual time. Spotting sun’s movement from sunrise to sunset takes about 12 hours; it’s obviously not possible and you won’t even notice the changes. But seeing it rise and set in 10 seconds, that’s pretty cool!

Check out these examples of nice time-lapse videos:

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Sci-fi Jungle Matte Painting [Timelapse] from Bobby Myers.
A timelapse video of my process creating a sci-fi jungle matte painting. Taking it from a concept sketch and a (nearly) finished product. Hope some can find this helpful, thanks for looking.

Just a quick note, you'll see some upscaling of photo ref's in the video. It's usually not good practice to do that, but I got lucky and it wasn't too bad here. I just don't want to promote bad techniques or anything. Knowing is half the battle.

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