Surf gear company Rip Curl and Time-Slice Films, the visual effects house behind the "bullet time" visuals first seen in The Matrix, have partnered up to take digital camera arrays where they've never gone before: In the water to capture surfers in action.
As you can imagine the technical challenges were immense, and their first foray was in the more controlled environment of the wave pool at Malaysia's Sunway Lagoon Hotel. There they could erect an in-water scaffolding to mount 52 full-sized DSLR cameras, and the results were stunning (I highly recommend you watch them full-screen):
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