Moving Still Images with 3d effect ??

[Jim Scott]

Here’s a link that may help: https://www.dv.com/news/news_item.jhtml?LookupId=/xml/feature/2003/diaz0503

[Jim Scott]

Other than that “The Kid Stays in the Picture” effect which isn’t zooming through stills, you just need to arrange stills in Z space in After Effects and either move them towards the camera or move the camera through space past them. I haven’t seen Total Training’s example but I’m guessing this is the effect you want. Hope this helps.

[Jerryjet]

The best thing for this technique is a dedicated Motion Control application called Moving Pictures by Stage tools. It provides much smoother resukts even with extremely large files such as 8K images.

You can export a sequence and import the file into any NLE or flash enable it as well.

see:
https://www.jetstreamer.com/moving_pictures.htm

all the best
jerry h

[Steve M]

thank you Jim. I believe this puts me in the right direction. That “kid stays in the picture” seems to be the effect that I was looking for.

The total training intro builds on this I believe, they actually make you feel like you are flying through an old european city that is a drawing,
the buildings are passing you while you are going up a street.

I wonder if it would be illegal if I copyed just a snippet of the intro to show you and posted a link here?

Thanks again

Steve

[Steve M]

Jerry,

does this program have the ablility to use 3d space, so you can get the illusion of zooming through the picture with things passing you?

[Jim Scott]

It sounds like you would want to use After Effects and distribute the stills (layers) along the road in Z space and animate the camera down the road. You might try emailing Total Training and getting the specifics of their technique but I believe this is what they did. Digital Anarchy has a “3D Assistants” plugin (https://www.digitalanarchy.com/3Dassist/3Dassist_main.html) that simplifies arranging layers in 3D space but you can do this fairly easily in After Effects alone. Good luck.

Jim

[Derek Bowshier]

I am looking for a commercial example of this 3d still image motion effect to show a client.

Can anyone direct me to a popular commercial link?

Thanks,

Derek

[Richard Harrington]

Gatorade spots used this

I have also produced multiple tutorials on this technique (just web search “Motion Control 3d”)

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork