Ever wanted to be an intergalactic photographer but thought, ‘Nah, there’s no Millennium Falcon near here’? Yeah, us neither. But if we did we wouldn’t have a problem anyway, because Finnish artist Vesa Lehtimäki has shown us the way.
It turns out, all you need is a few toys and some serious camera knowledge. Lehtimaki, aka Avanaut, started this Star Wars scale model project to show how anyone can take stunning photographs regardless of their equipment. With just a couple of miniature replicas and forced perspective, you can produce spectacular results.
‘What in the name of Tattooine is ‘forced perspective?’’, we hear you cry, ‘It must be a trap!’ Well, according to the Internet, it’s a technique which employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. Think Helm’s Deep in The Lord of the Rings and those dinky Thunderbirds puppets.
From action shots of the Falcon to realistic set-ups of stormtroopers, there’s some pretty nifty lenswork going on here. And you’d expect nothing less from a man of such pedigree. That’s right, Lehtimaki is the actual brains behind the blizzards on Star Wars Lego. As well as giving The Lego Movie’s visuals the jump to hyperspace they sorely needed. He’s no slouch that’s for sure. Anyway, don’t take our word for it, check out his handiwork for yourself below.