helicopter still to video?

[Chris Wright]

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/animating_a_still/

[Joshua Mccray]

Thanks, but that tells me how to animate smoke, doesn’t tell me how to get the illusion of the moving blades.

[John Cuevas]

Check out this tutorial at video copilot, will explain a few of the concepts of turning 2d photos into more a 3d look: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/virtual_3d_photos/

For the blades it looks like they were cut out(masked), turned into a 3d layer, had the anchor point adjusted and just rotated very fast with motion blur turned on.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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