Could some one please tell me how they did this? been wondering for years!

Same technique as the famous bullet-dodge in "The Matrix." Uses as string of cameras that all fire at the same time, or in sequence depending on if they want frozen motion or movement, respectively.
 
David Jimerson said:
Not sure about that -- if you watch carefully, there are perspective changes.
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Exactly. It looks like some type of layering technique. I have watched this a million times and tried a bunch stuff in AE (but I still a noob with after effects) it does not look like bullet time to me. it is puzzling. but dope nonetheless. I want to use it on my next film but no one knows how they did it.
 
Anhar, I think that is it! I was hoping you and your gigantic brain would chime in here. So what they did was freeze a frame then apply projection mapping. from your link there were many other videos that looked like the Maxwell video. I may have to pay someone to do that. That is waaaaay beyond my scope of understanding. Thank you my friend.
 
I think using a basic base rigged model (taken from poser) you *may* be able to

(1) Freeze frame you want make into "3d"

(2) move/ scale/ model so match the same exact pose/ position approximately as the freezed frame

(3) apply projection mapping.

Now looking at the video again, I can see some of these shots could be done this way,

except one shot with multiple people, however they seem to zoom into them

so perhaps its a combination of projection mapping and 2.5D layered zooms and pans.

Anhar,
 
Do you remember the Gap commercials a few years ago where there was a freeze frame on a swing dancer in mid-air, and the camera then rotated around the frozen dancer, perspective changes and all? I think this was done the same way.

In the Gap commercials, they set up a circle of still cameras around the dancer, all triggered to take a picture at the same time. Then the still frames were placed sequentially in a timeline, creating the impression of a camera move (with no movement within the frame, of course, since all of the pictures were taken at the same time). The same could be done with synced video cameras in a circle by simply picking stills at the same time code to use instead of the still camera shots.

In your clip, I think the zoom was created on the frozen frame in the same way, simply by setting the cameras up in a line towards the subject, rather than in a circle. See if you can find those Gap commercials somewhere online and you will see what I mean.

Kevin
 
I think it's a matter of rotoscoping and a lot of hard work. Everyone tends to look for a one off easy answer and that is seldom the case.
People like Nate from the Fat Monster crew are experts at rotoscoping. The rest is basic compositing.

Shameless plug, I did this for the second dvx vfx challenge using two offset pictures to create a panning shot. So few could figure it out because of the amount of work required.
http://www.archivisuals.com/fest2/assets/multimedia/Entry03.mov


So, I'd say, simple rotoscoping and a ton of work. Nothing magic about it really.
 
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Raptor365 said:
I think it's a matter of rotoscoping and a lot of hard work. Everyone tends to look for a one off easy answer and that is seldom the case.
People like Nate from the Fat Monster crew are experts at rotoscoping. The rest is basic compositing.

Shameless plug, I did this for the second dvx vfx challenge using two offset pictures to create a panning shot. So few could figure it out because of the amount of work required.
http://www.archivisuals.com/fest2/assets/multimedia/Entry03.mov


So, I'd say, simple rotoscoping and a ton of work. Nothing magic about it really.
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Hmm, but how would rotoscoping explaing the perspective change?

I can see some shots that would work from rotoing it, but some have clear perspective changes
 
Correct, rotoing wouldn't account for all of the perspective changes. Some could if they were shot with the zoom in and composited over a new background.
Intersesting video though. I'm sure it was a ton of work regardless of how it was done.
 
I guess no one knows. But whatever it is, it was a whole lot of work. The mysterious maxwell roto2D3Dpushmapthingy remains a mystery. Damn.
 
Didn't TGI Friday's have a series of commercials a couple years ago that had this same effect?
 
C2V said:
Didn't TGI Friday's have a series of commercials a couple years ago that had this same effect?
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Kind of, the images on that commercial were layered and you could see them purposely. It wasn't seemless like the maxwell video. The perspective change is what seems to be puzzling everyone. it is strange to only have seen it used once and once only. I think it looks crazy. Somebody knows something somwhere dammit!
 
Anyone else glad that Anhar likes film instead of Global domination. I am pretty sure we would all call him master by the weekend if he wanted to take over the plant.

But I agree projection mapping looks like the technique. Very cool stuff.
 
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