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Creating Motion and depth with still photos.
I know how to do the basic Ken Burns thing in AE but want I want to do is create sense of
depth and movement with the photos. Not sure if any body reading this has seen the surf doc. film called Riding Giants.
But If you have a I want to sort of re-create what they did with the still images in that film.
I know that they seperated the subject from the forground in photoshop and changed they’re scale and speed in AE
to make them look like that are moving away from each other but I’m not 100% sure.
If somebody has any tips and tricks on how to do this and can understand what I am talking about
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The effects is called the “kid stays in the picture” effect, popularized by the doc of the same name. There should be quite a few tips around the web if you search based on that name.
Basically, in AE, I make the PS layers 3D, separate them a bit, then dolly the camera (auto-orient off) across the separated layers.
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thanks!!!
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Keep in mind that when you cut out the foreground object from the pic, you will need to replace the bg (whatever would be behind the foreground object) by hand. Since this information is not contained in the picture,…it can sometimes involve vary tedious photo restoration.
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Oh, yes. The background cloning can be very tedious. If your background is very complicated and un-cloneable, your motions may be very limited.
It’s not a slam-dunk-three-click process, in other words. 🙂
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Thanks guys
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To save a little time with SOME of the cloning you can scale up the foreground element aswell to cover more background, if it works in that particular pic.
– Derrick
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This effects is a good one to make a tutorials, Anybody(Creative Cow Leaders), make a tutorial of this, please
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