[AE CS4-CS5] How to make 2d photo animation (3D photo effect)

[Steve Roberts]

Absolutely. If you cut out a foreground object, you don’t have to do anything to the background. But if you move the foreground object or camera, you’re going to see the hole in the background that you just made. Right?

… so you need to prep the image in Photoshop by 1.) cutting out the objects, and 2.) filling the edges of the holes by cloning into the holes that you just made (or filling them with other, transplanted objects). Then you take this multi-layer image into AE, separate the layers in Z-space, then move the camera around.

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

The first well-known use of this technique was in a movie called, “The Kid Stays In The Picture”. If you google it, a couple of tutorials should show up.

Basically, it requires slicing a photo into several planes. In the example of that train, it would be like this:
• deep background (sky)
• background (horizon)
• middle distance (closer hills)
• subject (train)
• foreground (tree in front of train)

You do a lot of masking and image repairing in Photoshop before you do anything in AE.

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[Michael Szalapski]

For future reference, here’s a tutorial

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[Duca Simone luchini]

Hallo again,

Have I read again this post and have I still 2 questions?

For STEVE ROBERS:
2.) filling the edges of the holes by cloning into the holes that you just made (or filling them with other, transplanted objects).

Can you exactly explain me what do you means?

For TED JELESCU:
... it's best to get a few close to camera and one or two as far as possible from the camera ( that means increasing the size of your background plate in AE so that you can place it far in z space).

What do you means? Example?

AND

Well if you want to get into it- use displacement maps to fake 3D for parts of your drawings/paintings

I think I’ve not understood.. sorry?

THX!

[Duca Simone luchini]

THX Ted, i’Ve understood now!

[Agostino Pacciani]

Sorry, I have the same problem with the background. I you can make a new background in a anomation like this ?

have a look at this video

https://onemillion.theglobalfund.org/page/share/global-fund-video-short?utm_medium=email&utm_source=theglobalfund&utm_campaign=110601_Launch_01_VidShort&source=110601_Launch_01_VidShort