100% AI-Generated Tilt Shift/Mini Scale Short Film | "Cinema Worlds" (2025)

Описание: This movie was created by Jan-Willem Blom
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Before AI and CGI, there was glue. A tribute to the miniature worlds of cinema.

Before CGI and digital sets, movies were built by hand — with foam, glue, paint, and imagination.

This video is a tribute to the model makers.
The sculptors. The painters. The quiet visionaries who built worlds before cameras rolled — and saw them move long before anyone else.

From the gothic rooftops of Batman Returns, to the sweeping ramparts of Minas Tirith.
From a roaring T-Rex in Jurassic Park, to the eerie breath of a Xenomorph Queen in Aliens.
These were not just sets.
They were stories waiting to be filmed.

This animated diorama experiment reimagines iconic movie moments in motion — capturing the spirit of those who built them first.

📽️ Created with:

AI image generation (Midjourney, Arcana Labs)
Cinematic animation styling (stop-motion look)
Edited & produced with love for practical effects

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For decades, people have built stories with their bare hands:

'The Empire Strikes Back' (1980)
Legendary use of scale models. ILM used miniatures for the AT-AT walkers, Hoth battle scenes and even sections of Cloud City.

'Aliens' (1986)
The Sulaco and the Alien queen were a combination of large-scale puppet and minitiatures. Many explosion shots were down with scale models. Director Fede Álvarez even brought in the miniature artists from 'Aliens' to work on 'Alien: Romulus'.

'Batman Returns' (1992)
Gotham City was famously built using large-scale miniatures and perspective sets. The cityscapes, Batmobile sequences, all enhanced with lightning and smoke. My fav Batman movie.

'Jurassic Park' (1993)
While known for its groundbreaking CGI, Jurassic Park also relied on animatronics and scale models, including the T-Rex breakout scene where miniature fences, cars and rain effects were used in some shots.

'The Lord of the Rings trilogy' (2001-2003)
Weta Workshop coined the term 'Bigatures' - highly detailed large-scaled miniatures used for Minas Tirith, Isengard, Helm's Deep, Barad-dûr etc. These were combined with digital effects but the models were real.

These sets were built with resin, plastic, metal and something else:
imagination.

Before the actor stood on stage,
Before the camera moved through the set,
the model makers saw it all.

They didn't just build the scene, but imagined movement.

This short piece is a tribute to these builders and that moment.
When stillness comes alive for the very first time.

Not as a shot.
But as a feeling.

*Creative process upon request:

prompt structure: ChatGPT
[close-up of a miniature Batman perched on a snowy gothic rooftop, cape wrapped tight, neon blue city lights glowing behind him, snowflakes drifting down, expression hidden under the cowl, low moody lighting, tilt-shift depth, retro noir tone]
image generation: Midjourney
image upscaling: Topaz Labs
video animation: MiniMax 2
video upscaling: Topaz Labs
video edit: Adobe Premiere
sound design: Epidemic Sound