• Adobe After Effects

  Need Help: 2D Picture to 3D Zoom Through Effect…

  Posted by Ivan Watkins on January 4, 2008 at 4:42 pm

  I’m trying to determine how to create the moving through 3D affect that I’ve seen on TV. Imagine a 2D picture that obviously has different elements in it and then you sort of step inside the picture and move through it… people in the foreground move past and then off the screen as if you’re moving through. Is there a tutorial on how to pull off this affect?

  I saw a guy do this on you tube… Happens at the 01:10 mark
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKCASOjQs8g&feature=related

  Thanks,
  Ivan

  Ivan Watkins replied 18 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  January 4, 2008 at 5:12 pm

  Are you looking for the “kid stays in the picture” effect? Try searching the COW for that.
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  Robert Nesta

  January 4, 2008 at 5:16 pm

  Ivan, i just watched the youtube link you posted, in fact the effect is tricky but simple, i would recomend you start editing the picture you want in photoshop (i will refer from now on to the composition were there is a tree with a bird and a boat in the bakground, its the same process for the rest).
  First separate the shape of the tree with the bird from the background, then using the clon tool or wathever tool you u like fill the background so there is no tree, so u have a layer with a clean background and the tree separated in another layer. Then import de psd in after effects. In the composition, place the layers in the timeline, activate the 3d property of both layers (i usually work with the top view and active camera at the same time doing this), you should set the position property of the background layer away from the “tree” layer. create a new camera, select the type of leens that you please or use the default one, and now you should scale the bakground so that it fits the composition, and separate it in the z axis from the tree layer as you please (if its far away, you have to scale higher, and it looses definition). then just play animating the camara along the 3d space to see the effect work.

  Andr
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  Tom Edison

  January 4, 2008 at 6:14 pm

  Ivan, if I understand your question correctly, Andrew Kramer has a tutorial on his amazing website which involves just the thing you are looking for. Here is a link: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=63
  If my link does not work, go to http://www.videocopilot.net, tutorial 46.
  Good luck!
  -Tom
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  Ivan Watkins

  January 4, 2008 at 6:58 pm

  Thanks for your responses guys.. I will look at everything really close and I look forward to making my first pan and zoom… I had never heard of “Kids stay in the picture” therefore I’ll check that out as well.

  I appreciate it…

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