They may be mountains of muscle in real life but a Sydney-based filmmaker has made professional wrestlers Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair look like dollhouse figurines through the magic of tilt-shift photography.
Keith Loutit has used a combination of special photo lenses and time lapse animation to create a fascinating short film of last Saturday's Hulkamania show in Melbourne.
Filming from a distance using lenses designed for close-ups, Loutit has created the impression viewers are watching an animation using hundreds of toys instead of the real thing.
"Tilt-shift photography creates a narrow depth of field, It creates the illusion of something that is really small and close to the eye," Loutit told ninemsn.
"Time lapse creates the very jerky feel which makes it feel like claymation."
Loutit's individual style has previously been used to make films of a Brisbane monster truck rally and the Sydney Mardi Gras.
"Most of the work I do is documentary work around Sydney but I wanted an opportunity to shoot something that I felt would suit the style, like the monster truck event and Hulkamania," he said.
"Hulk Hogan was such a pop culture icon in the '80s and '90s and people of my generation had Hulk Hogan action figures, so it seemed like a good choice."
Loutit has also used the style to film commercials for National Australia Bank and Italian finance company UGF.
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