3D Photo Effect & Video

Thanks. :)

mikko - For the last one, with the monks, it was all separate photos for the layers. But the others all used the same photo to make the different layers. All you do is cut out the part you want (ex: the man in white), paste it into a new layer, and then use the clone tool to remove it from the original layer (as if it never existed in the first place).



But it's much easier if you use separate photos for the different layers.

pk ..... loves the clone tool.
 
Very cool.
I guess the trick is (in addition to cloning) to work backwards from the photos moving in a way that the forground elements are always larger than in the original to keep their "holes" covered up as much as possible?


- Mikko ... needs to learn AE
 
dam PK, i love that stuff. i have been trying to incorporate this stuff into my video and have watched a lot of tutorials on this, think some refer to it as the 2 1/2 D look. the only problem is, time it takes to be as good as you are !

keep up the good work, at least it inspires guys like me to do more with these types of effects. if i really get this down, it will look awesome and people will go crazy when seen in my sport footage. i first noticed this effect in the willie mays footage at the opening of MLB 2007 allstar game.

btw,

i was born in Chiang Rai, 1965, LOL. dad was g.i. of sorts (the company) and actually brought me home to U.S. (i was first embassy amer-asian ever brought back), funny thing was when dad wanted to do it via embassy, they said "we have no paper work for that, no one has ever wanted to" LOL.

guess i'm just lucky,

hope to one day visit Thailand again.

Tin Man
 
Tin Man - Fascinating story about your origins. Chiang Rai is a beautiful area. You should make a trip back to your homeland.


rcbrown23 - The first two (the shack and river) had 8 layers so it took about 4-5 hours each. The last two only had 4 layers and took about 2 hours each. But that's not including 30 minutes of render time.

David - But you still have to prep the layers in Photoshop, right? I mean, Vegas can't do everything..... yet. lol
 
I love that AE/Photoshop technique. The major problem I run into is that whenever I set several keyframes, it changes the line of site of the camera. For instance, if I have the camera curving around a picture, things get a little screwy. Going straight into the picture, no problem.
Never figured that out after all these years.

PK, your stuff looks nice.
 
David Jimerson said:
Yup, been doing that sort of thing in Vegas for a while. Nice work.
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I love this effect (and these in particular PK) and I was thinking the same thing. Couldn't you import alpha images (call 'em layers if you want) or PNG files... for any of the various layers of foreground elements... and then use your main picture (or chosen BG) as the back layer... and then use the motion tools of Vegas to animate it all?

I feel like I'm in the stone ages w/o using AE though. My Premiere woes of years gone by pulled me out of the Adobe camp, with the obvious exception of PS.
 
MattinSTL said:
I love this effect (and these in particular PK) and I was thinking the same thing. Couldn't you import alpha images (call 'em layers if you want) or PNG files... for any of the various layers of foreground elements... and then use your main picture (or chosen BG) as the back layer... and then use the motion tools of Vegas to animate it all?.
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Yes, that's one way of doing it. You can set the position of all of the layers in 3D space, then parent/child all of the tracks together and fly through, over, around, whatever you want to do.

You don't necessarily need alpha channels to begin with, though. You can make bezier splines and cut up anything you want, or you can use multiply or difference masking, or various composite modes, etc., to give you the individual elements you want.
 
THese type of images have always intrigued me. THe basic concept seems to be:

1)Separate what you want to be the foreground from the background in photoshop.

2) Fix the background to make it look like it would without the foreground.

3) APply a separate motion map to each layer.

If that is correct, it seems to be something I can do in FCP once I hve the separate images. What does working in AE do to help? Make it faster, more efficient, look better?

Just curious. Nice work PK. The first one especially is amazing to me. I think it helps to have 8 separate layers.

EDIT: Sorry I should have refreshed this thread before I posted.
 
The first time I say this technique was in "The Kid Stays in the Picture," the doc about Robert Evans. I liked the doc, even though I kept thinking "man, I'll bet that took forever." See it around a lot more now, but it's always cool. Just one of the decently subtle effects that gives some different texture. Nice work, PK. :thumbsup:
 
Jim Brennan said:
images. What does working in AE do to help? Make it faster, more efficient, look better?
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In AE, you have the option to add a separate top layer, a "camera". You promote all your layers beneath the camera layer to 3D. Then you can have the camera "fly through" your project. You can also move said layers around with keyframes as the camera passes by them.

And as you touched upon, yes, you can clean up your image with the clone stamp in photoshop, creating nicer backgrounds.

As far as how does AE help? For one, the keyframe assistant helps make moves smoother. Any large project with multiple layers, I'm going to do it in AE, no doubt. It looks better for sure.

At any given commercial break, I usually see something that was done using After Effects, especially this effect.
 
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