Video: Ken Block Dirt3 Gymkhana: Tilt Shift Miniature Version


Ken Block’s Gymkhana videos are among the most popular on the Internet, and what went from a few friends having fun with cameras now has top-notch production values and the backing of major brands. You know you’ve made it big when a video game company asks you to make a Gymkhana video just for their soon-to-release game.

That’s what Block did for DiRT3, and now the development team for the video game has produced a tilt shift camera version of that same video. Different look, different angles, different music, same great Ken Block hooning.

Tilt-shift photography is a style of photography used to simulate the effect of watching toys in action. When combined with postprocessing technology, one can turn a real world scene into toys scurrying across a miniature set. It is a very nifty form of photography, and when applied to Ken Block’s Gymkhana, it makes for a very cool mini-hooning scene.

It also provides us with different angles on the action, giving us a better look at the course Block laid out for himself around the Battersea power plant. We can see a lot of the cameramen and even a cable-based filming rig in action, and the course is even bigger than we imagined. So what’s next for Block? Well, after seeing this video, we think a children’s Gymkhana World Playset is in order. Imagine the possibilities; turn your living room into a Gymkhana obstacle course and pit Tanner Foust and Ken Block in a racing dual to the death.*

*Ken Block and Tanner Foust action figures sold separately

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Chris Demorro

Christopher DeMorro is a freelance writer and journalist from Connecticut with two passions in life; writing and anything with an engine.
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