a time-lapsed but rotoscoped treatment of live action photography : budding fruit shouldering their way out of pods ; wheat fields of green wiggling shoots that run tall into mature golden strands , before crumpling and collapsing into fallow gray ; a river swelling , meandering messily over plains , then shrinking to a single cold blue artery ; the skirt of sunlight drawing across the deserts , hills , plains and ocean of the tumbling earth .