Inspired by Jacques Henri Lartigue’s famous photo:
Distortions are accomplished the same way they were done in the original, motion blur and a rolling shutter.
more information on the original photo can be found here - highly recommended:
Inspired by Jacques Henri Lartigue’s famous photo:
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Oh, I love how you’ve used the camera lens distortion!
It’s actually just the standard perspective lens, the distortion is purely based on motion and the rolling shutter option in the cycles motionblur.
The camera used in the historical photo had a rolling shutter that swept from the bottom of the image towards the top, and blender only has top to bottom as an option for rolling shutter, so everything is technically animated backwards in order to get the effect to match.
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thanks for the explanation! Real-world camera techniques are currently a mystery to me so hopefully I can look into it in more detail sometime.
if you check out that link in the bottom of the first post, it has a really nice breakdown of how this image was formed. There’s a very nice animation showing everything coming together in the exposure.
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that was a fascinating read. And excellent cubification, too 
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