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King Kong Displacement map
Did a little experimenting with displacement maps. I created the displacement map on a separate layer in Photoshop, then brought them into AE and distorted the photo with it. Check it out:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60296545@N00/2214468307/
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Very nice!
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Can you explain a bit more how you did that?
It looks really cool and seems like it could be a useful little trick. -
Sure!
So you’ve got the photo of Kong (or whatever) and another layer with the displacement map on it (light areas for elements you want coming out at you, darker areas for elements going back). You open that in AE, go up to Effect_Distort_Displacement Map, then under the Effect Control you select the layer with the Displacement map in the drop down menu, select luminance under Use for Horizontal,then go down to Use for Vertical and turn it off (set Max Vertical Displacement to zero. Then go back up to Max Horizontal, set a keyframe and enter a minus number (like -20 for starters) then under your timeline slide over to your last frame, the go back up to Max Horizontal and enter a positive number (plus 20 now, so you’ve got an even before and after). Then hit the spacebar to preview the render. -
Wow.
Please explain!
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can you show us the displacement map?
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Yeah, I am curious about your displacement map as well.
I assume you made it in Photoshop, but how? -
Guys! It’s just a displacement map 🙂 No biggy.
Even something as simple as this will work. It took less than 5 mins to do it. I think it this kind of photo it would be good to start off by doing a circular gradient. it’s hard to get that mid tones transition if you’re not a good photoshop painter 😉
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it just works like any other displacement map. The lighter the map the more that part of the image will extrude from the background.
Just bring your photo into photoshop and start painting on a separate black layer with a very soft white brush. When you’re done just discard the original photo in photoshop so that just the displacement map is left. Bring both the map and the original photo into After Effects. Put the displacement map effect on the original photo and point the source layer to the map you just made in Photoshop.
I think that should do the trick.It can be bit tricky to get it exactly right though. But you did an excellent job with the King Kong image.
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yeah – I have to say, maybe it’s just an illusion, but even some of the hairs seem to be well matched. That’s why I ask.
Nicely done. If you can, please post the map used.
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Heres one with more details in it. Took 8 minutes 🙂
What I actually do is that I create a new layer over the photo, fill it with mid-gray (127,127,127), turn the opacity to 70%, and then I use Dodge and Burn soft brushes on that layer, but it may also be good to set up several shades of gray as solid colors and use them instead. It seems that that way it will be easier to maintain the depth between certain areas, but as long as someone is a good painter it doesn’t really matter.
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