Brad Bartkus
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We use proprietary interlacing/screen software for lenticular.
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No. If you render out your animation from Maya that plug-in generates the depth map which creates the stereoscopic views, when viewed on a 3d monitor give you a 3d video without the need for glasses. (The monitors have a lenticular lens on their surface.)
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The maps are made in Photoshop. I start with a grey layer and use the Dodge and Burn tools, duplicate channels and use them as masks, etc.
There are Plug-Ins for Maya and 3DS that will actually render your video with a depth map channel for use on 3d monitors. Like this:
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That shot of the Mona Lisa doesn’t even use a camera. The Mona Lisa is simply distorted left to right and the background is just stepped or offset left to right.
Do you have a movie clip or animated gif to show what your expression actually looks like when applied? That would be very helpful.
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If you want to keep it vector art just go to SAve as and choose pdf and leave everything clicked on in the options. Vector art doen’t have a dpi becuase it’s basedon mathematical points, called vectors which means it can be scaled up or down with loss in detail or resolution.
If you rasterize it that’s a different story. Then you can scale down without out too much of a problem but you really don’t want to scale up because then your image will get soft and fuzzy or pixelated.
You can also Export your file as a Photoshop file by going to File Export, then pick psd file. That’s when you can pick 300 pixels per inch. After that you could open the psd file in Photoshop, flatten if need be, and then save that as a pdf as well.
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I believe you can do that right in Illustrator. You just pick a style you’d like your frame to be stroked with. I think there’s a rope in there.
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You could bring your layered Photoshop into After Effects and do it there, then render out what you need as far as frames go. Or you can create the look of falling rain in Photoshop by creating a layer with little dots all over it and then apply a motion blur to it, like I did here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60296545@N00/293303652/in/set-72157594368193561/
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That’s interesting. Once we get the new version of Photoshop I’ll dig into it more deeply. I’m hoping you’ll be able to pick different lenses than the rough ones he shows. We typically print on a 100 lenticules per inch lens from Pacur.
https://www.pacur.com/
It also only appears to print two different angles for the 3d. We typically print at least 12. I’m hoping there’s a setting for the number of frames you want to interlace under the lens. (Depending on the amount of lenticules per inch you can fit a set amount of info under each lenticule. There is a lens which has 200 lenticules per inch which can only support about 6 different angles or frames under it whereas the 40 lenticules per inch lens can support about 8 times that.) there are different lenses for different applications. The 200 lpi lens is great for labels and that sort of thing and the 40 lpi might be better suited for posters, bus shelters, etc. -
Mike,
I’ve been doing lenticular for about 15 years now. The company I was at before coming here is National Graphics (using their Extreme Vision technology), where I worked on hundreds of lenticular projects over the course of 9 or 10 years, including the DVD cover for Independence Day. I’ve been here at RR Donnelley for over 5 years (using proprietary interlacing software) and have worked on hundreds of lenticular projects here as well, including many for the Disney Movie Club, the upcoming release of Hellboy II, Iron Man, Starship Stroopers 3, as well as many more projects for packaging, POP displays, tradeshow booths, etc. It has been great being a part of bringing lenticular into the mainstream through modern interlacing software, the use of Photoshop, After Effects, morphing programs and computer to plate technology and seeing all of the various lenses being developed for a wide range of lenticular, from extremely thin (with 200 lenticules per inch) for label applications to very thick (40 lenticules per inch) for bus shelter sized posters. You can do everything from a postage stamp to a billboard now so it’s great to see Adobe integrating it right into Photoshop. -
Yes, go here to see a ton of examples…
lenticular.rrd.com/