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“Camera Mapping”
How do I do this effect?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKBdsybaFRII appreciate there’s a lot of ways to do it using CGI (eg making models) but that’s obviously with a real bit of footage/ photo- also I DO know how to do bullet time using multiple cameras, but I get the impression you can do this digitally somehow? Is it a cleverly simulated bunch of photos? Or something else?
Any tutorials anywhere? 😀
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Tom Morter-Laing
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I can’t see how you can do genuine perspective change on a still image except with a multi camera setup.
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That looks like a phony version of the Matrix effect, which is done with a zillion still cameras set in a circle around the actors in 3D space.
This one is more like the “Kid Stays in the Picture effect” and appears to simply be a 2D kid on a skateboard either shot against a blue screen or rotoscoped, and then animated in 3D space using a compositing app. It’s the changing relationships of the elements in the foreground and background and the rotation that sells it and makes it look like more than just 2D images.
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Well spotted David. The perspective on the kid remains the same, just the foreground and background has perspective change. They have slightly changed the size and position of the skate kid to help sell the effect.
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Yes, as David say this made with a line of still cameras shooting at once. Freeze motion or so is called.
The Rolling Stones made few in a video clip of “Like a Rollings Stone”. Astonishing
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Camera mapping is a VFX technique where textures are projected through the camera onto geometry in 3D space. Essentially, you build out the basic geometry of the scene in 2.5D or 3D software, project photography onto the geometry, and move the camera around. Googling “camera mapping” or “projection mapping” will yield a lot of tutorials on the technique.
Multi-plane animation (as David describes) is a similar technique; with multi-plane animation, you cut a photograph into layers (at least foreground and background, but you could do as many midground layers as you like). Fill in the gaps with the clone tool, then bring all the layers into a 2.5D or 3D compositing app (like After Effects or Motion). Distribute the layers in z-space, adjust their relative scales, and animate the camera through 3D space to get the parallax effect you saw in the clip.
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That effect was done with at least 3 completely different photos and some photoshop.
One photo with the background.
One photo of the middle ground with the back ground removed in photo shop.
And a third photo of some objects in the foreground with mid and background removed.Each photo could possibly even be taken at different locations.
then its just a matter of animating each layer in FCP, motion, after effects or whatever.
Same basic thing done here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_POZER07Dc&feature=relatedYes it can be done from one photo but it takes a LOT of photo shop work to fill in parts that were originally covered by something else.
For example in the example link above notice that the guy in the back middle does not have a belly button because the guy who did the photo shopping did not photo shop one in.
It is easier and you get better results to plan ahead and take separate photos and then cut them into layers.
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Yeah cool thanks for your help (s)- less so to the people who told me how the matrix things is done, because as i DID state, I do know how bullet time is achieved…. and my example wasnt with that. But now I know it was probably just cleverly manipulated freeze frames 😀 LAME! I was hoping for a ‘yes you just use the ultra 3d plugin of awesomeness’…
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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV ProductioniMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).
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[Thomas Morter-Laing] “I was hoping for a ‘yes you just use the ultra 3d plugin of awesomeness”
Please NEVER say that to an editor again. The only “plugin of awesomeness” there is, is the person sitting in front of the computer.A talented, creative, individual who has a critical eye and the patience to do things that are often time consuming.
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I am an editor, so thanks for calling me a plug in of awesomeness 😀
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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV ProductioniMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).
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Thomas based on the fact that you have been asking a LOT of questions on e cow lately some even vary basic i can tell you are a relatively new editor. Now i don’t mean any offense to you by saying this but when people ask for a “plugin of awesomeness” or a “magic plugin” i have found that that person usualy does not understand and respect all the hard work, knowledge, pacentce, and still that it takes to make a quality production. They often think that video is easy and anyone can do it and make it look good. I have known editors who are vary skilled and can do amassing things and editors who are not even worth a dv tape. Those editors who are not worth a thing are usually that bad because again they don’t respect the fact that it takes a lot of work, and a lot of patience to make the end result look good. They take shortcuts when shortcuts should not be taken. Yes its always good to look for ways to get things done faster, but if your goal is to make a square then cutting corners will not get you there.
Basicly Thomas when you say things like “plugin of awesomeness” or “magic plugin” it that you do not respect the knoledge i have learned over the years, and the don’t respect the sills and talents i have. And when another editor says things like that it really looks like they don’t take what they do seriously.
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