What is the Tilt Shift and Miniature Effect: Explained using Blender

In this tutorial, I will explain how to achieve the miniature effect in just a few minutes. I will cover how to get the effect using Blender in two ways, but the general concepts are presented for both 3D programs as well as programs like Photoshop and Gimp. I also cover how to get a shallow depth of field and how to focus on a single object using Blender. If you find this tutorial helpful and want our speed key cheat sheet, you can get it by clicking on the link below. Additionally, you can have free access to our SkillShare classes by simply asking.
Cheat sheet and free access to my SkillShare classes
bit.ly/tiltshiftYTtocheatsheat

[@nFyrin]

I remember Simcity 2013 used this effect to make the city look like a miniature models.

[@educraftideas286]

I never thought about that but your right

[@choochootraiin]

Well done on the video. However, it's noted that the effect created in the video is only a postprocessing and doesn't actually simulate the real tilt-shift effect. One major difference is that tilt-shift and actually makes both background and foreground in focus while this will blur both subject in background and foreground. Real tilt-shift camera did this by physically tilting the plane of focus and allow objects that intersect this plane (background or foreground) to be in focus.

[@stedbenj]

Brilliant!!! Thank you so much!

[@chushili1955]

Great vid!

[@bigsky7617]

Is it better to set your animation up and then setup the camera for tilt-shift, or to create the scene through the lens? I'm thinking car chase here...

[@GrawvyRobber]

I'm using Blender 4.0 and an F-stop of .1 is the lowest it will allow

[@gooaygar]

Also why don't you have more followers/subscribers

[@educraftideas286]

I appreciate the sentiment. Some day hopefully. There are lots of things I'd like to do with the channel and people who want to learn to use Blender.

[@gooaygar]

Obligatory first