• Adobe After Effects

  Moving Pictures effect

  Posted by Jtyler54 on October 22, 2006 at 5:14 am

  Wondering if anyone had any tips on achieving the effect that is used often on still photos. The camera seems to come out of the picture passing by other objects in the picture as the camera passes them…it looks almost 3D. Great effect, really makes stills come alive. I’ve mess around for a few hours using a combination of Photoshop and After Effects, but can’t seem to get the right look. ANYONE?

  Mike Clasby replied 19 years, 6 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  Lars Bunch

  October 22, 2006 at 3:24 pm

  Hi,

  Basically you cut out your foreground elements in photoshop (or Shake, if you’ve got it) and save those with an alpha channel. Then you save a version of the image as a background… Here you have to use photoshop to replace and fill in background material where the foreground element was.

  Either that or you can place your cut out foreground over another background.

  In AE, you place each element in 3D space, placing the background deeper in Z space. Create a camera with a wide angle lens if you want to exagerate the effect, and then create your move.

  The work in AE is pretty basic… what is time consuming is the cutting out and background replacement in photoshop. If you haven’t used it before, this is a fine time to become acquainted with the path pallet and the pen tool. You can draw a path around the element you want to cut out and then convert it to a selection later when you want to extract it and create your alpha channel.

  If you have Shake, it has some very useful keying and rotoscoping tools that speed up this kind of work.

  Mostly it just takes a lot of practice and a good grasp of object relationships in 3D space.

  Hope this helps,

  Lars
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  Steve Roberts

  October 22, 2006 at 5:00 pm

  Do a search for “kid stays in the picture”. COW and Google.
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  Reloaded

  October 22, 2006 at 9:47 pm

  Very simple.
  Take a look at this video tutorial, it will help you a lot
  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/3dcompositing/index.html

  I hope it helps
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  Mike Clasby

  October 22, 2006 at 10:43 pm

  Andrew’s tut is great, here’s some more, the first one uses PhotoShop and AE to do what you want:

  3D in AE

  Here’s a tut from Adobe, That Old 3D Picture Trick:

  https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100827&xml=aft65sd3dtrick

  Here’s some of the 3D and Camera control from the Cow:

  Animating The Camera: A Five Minute Tutorial by Rick Gerard

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly1/index.html

  Expressing the Camera: A Five Minute Tutorial by Rick Gerard

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly2/index.html

  Using Depth of Field to Create Flythroughs by Bill O’Neil

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/DOF/index.html

  A Beginner’s course in 3D in AE 5.5 by Bjorn Sjostrom, Taking a Wild 3D Ride:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/sjostrom_bjorn/3d_ride/index.html

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