Tim Macmillan

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Tim MacMillan

The Man Who Invented Time-Slice Camera

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The Man Who Invented Time-Slice Camera

When someone mentions the movie Matrix , what most of us would automatically remember are the visual effects technically known as bullet time , where actions or characters seemed to have frozen in time and then moved in a really slow motion . Since its popularization in the movie , many have adopted the technique

While many have started applying frozen moments , it was Tim Macmillan who discovered and developed that photographic

method using technical and conceptual ways

Background

Born in Portland , Oregon , on Aug . 3 , 1959 , Tim Macmillan has studied painting as a Fine Art student in Bath Academy of Art before shifting to photography . It was in 1980 that his

curiosity was sparked and made him experiment in 2D medium to explore 3D space . In other words , Macmillan wanted to utilize photographic techniques to experiment with time and space

Macmillan found inspiration to find a new way to capture actions and expressions through English photographer Eadweard Muybridge 's work Animal Locomotion (Prince

From 1982 to 1984 ,Tim Macmillan continued studying in several art institutions , during which time , he found major ways to freeze apparent time in a motion picture tracking shot through the use of multiple apertures Name 3

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Career

Macmillan as an artist is involved in photography , film installation and television production . At the start of his professional career in 1984 Macmillan earned his living being a freelance photographer and filmmaker . He then lived in Tokyo , Japan , to study Archery . His stay there lasted for five years before returning to the United Kingdom in 1990 to set-up his own studio in Bath still doing freelance work

All this time , Macmillan never forgot his quest to find that new method of capturing movement . Before long , he devised his first time-slice equipment , a crude camera design that soon developed into something more sophisticated . In an interview , Macmillan named two innovations that helped him move forward with his goal : the production of high-quality plastic lens , and the birth of the T-Grain 500 ASA film (Prince

Despite this advances in his work , Macmillan was unable to capture the interest of the advertising industry . The medium was untested and advertisers were unwilling to experiment in an innovation that might cause them to lose money . It was only in 1993 through a primetime BBC science program that he was able to show the public an example of his work . What he showed on air stirred the public , which probably why his technique has started to gain notice

After that , he was engaged by BBC to do documentary series of natural history . He also got calls from television and filmmakers

Macmillan 's break in advertising came in 1995 when he was commissioned to do the

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London Static ad for Capital Radio by Smoke Mirrors . He was soon busily engaged doing one

project after another , which included movies and ad campaigns even in the United States...