Sprint Comercial Uses Pixelation/Flashlights
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW_9SYaWAQg[/youtube]
I got the inside dope on this spot from a friend of mine that ran the prop department. There were a couple of these spots shot in the wee hours at MacArthur Park here in Los Angeles all directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Feris (of Little Miss Sunshine Fame). All of the VFX are in-camera and created by a team of animators using a variety of gelled flashlights shot with extra long exposures. My buddy sez that for some of the more complicated scenes (the flowers bloomming for instance) the prop dept. created wire armatures of the final shapes so that the light painters could trace over them without losing their place. However it was done, the end effect is pretty cool.
