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[PAULNGUYEN]

Hi guys, I'm new here and would like to know if anyone is familiar with the technique used in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFusAcX7Zlg

I know that the images are all stills but would like to know how to achieve the "camera moves" and "pulls" that bring depth to the video and seemingly pull the foreground from the background.

Also, is there a name for this technique? And can it be done it Motion 3?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

 

[Casalen]

It looks like they're taking advantage of parallaxing, in which the background and foreground move at different speeds. You would just need to cut the subject out on a separate layer, fill in the background to cover the area that would otherwise be revealed and have them move separately. Easily done in any program that can do motion graphics, but I'd recommend separating the layers in Photoshop.

That's how I would achieve the same look to start, not necessarily how it's normally done.

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

Hi guys, I'm new here and would like to know if anyone is familiar with the technique used in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFusAcX7Zlg

I know that the images are all stills but would like to know how to achieve the "camera moves" and "pulls" that bring depth to the video and seemingly pull the foreground from the background.

Also, is there a name for this technique? And can it be done it Motion 3?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

I've done this in After Effects. The basic technique is to 'cut out the foreground' element, fill in the background with something that 'looks' reasonable, and make the cutout and back ground 3-D, separate the planes of the cutout and background, then use the AE camera motion to move the camera relative to the foreground.

Depending on how much fill in there is on the background, one can get more or less of the type of motion demonstrated.

If you shoot the original with this in mind, you would shoot a 'plate' with just the background, then put the subject in, shoot again, then cut the subject out and drop the cutout into the clean background plate...