Recreating the Severance Transition Effect

Written by Paul Strauss | March 7, 2025

When outies become innies in the elevator in Severance, they go through a trippy transformation process. Gav from The Slow Mo Guys shows us how its possible to replicate the visual effect using a motion control rig and a motorized zoom lens. It’s basically a modified version of the dolly zoom that’s been used to create unsettling visuals since Hitchcock’s Vertigo.