Weird reverse perspective, animated

BB co-conspirator Jeremy Mooney-Somers created this surreal and amazing proof-of-concept animation to illustrate "True Reverse Perspective." It reminds me of what The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari might have looked like if it were a cartoon. Jeremy writes:

In Reverse Perspective the expected visual rules are inverted, so close objects are small and far objects are big. This is not only true for whole objects, but their structure as well. So the near points of an object are closer together, relative to its far points, which gives the flared-out look of the buildings, and the scene as a whole.

Essentially, the positions of the vanishing-point and the focal-point are swapped. So now we are at the vanishing-point, where geometry shrinks to nothingness, and the focal-point lies some distance ahead, beyond which objects scale to infinity.

The effect is achieved entirely in-camera. The scene and models themselves have no unusual scaling, they're laid out in a normal / perpendicular fashion; the way the camera 'sees' the scene is altered to create the effect. Perspective is truly reversed.

True Reverse Perspective