“Long Gone” is a remarkable music video (below) created for the band, Fat City Reprise, by director and animator Casar Kuriyama. The clip was shot not with video, but with 45,000 DSLR photographic stills, pieced together to create a captivating and inexpensive artistic video running at 24fps.

Kuriyama used a Nikon D200 DSLR to capture four images per second in 60 shot bursts. The talent in front of the lens were instructed to move in slow motion during shooting to achieve the effect.

The video took 14 months to create, for a total cost of just $3,000. Kuriyama does note that he put in a lot of personal hours on the project, however. Editing was performed on his MacBook Pro running Final Cut Pro, with all the photos managed with Apple’s pre-installed iPhoto. Effects were created in Eveon Fusion.

It’s an amazing achievement that should really speak to and inspire people interested in this field. It shows that you don’t necessarily need expensive gear to create an interesting, high-quality work.

Sources:
Gadget Lab and Gizmo Watch