Ziegfeld Follies 2.5D Motion Parallax Test
Patrick David has done an outstanding job at taking old photographs and animating them in Blender.
Patrick writes:Another test playing around with cutting up images into planes for re-mapping into 3D space and animating. This time with some better (prettier) source material – Ziegfeld Follies Girls!
I hand-masked each image into separate regions, then brought them into Blender 3D as planes. Then I arranged the planes in 3D space and animated some of the meshes to produce the final result you see here.
I’ll probably get around to writing a tutorial soon.
Music:
In The Dark-Flashes
Written by Bix Beiderbeck (1903-1931)
Performed by Jess Stacy
Recording date: 1935
Wow, that looks really great. I hope the tutorial follows quickly. I was planning to use these type of techniques to make a movie from old photos for the occasion of someone who will turn 70 in march. I have some ideas of how to start, but it would be a pitty to reinvent the wheel.
Hey, PhysicsGuy, you may want to take a look at this:
http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/camera-mapping-tutorial-v2/
Altough it goes a bit further by adding actual geometry to match the pictures, I’m sure the concept and techniques will be really useful. ;)
This was actually an earlier tutorial that I had followed that is simply amazing. There are a couple of other really, really neat addons for generating matching geometry quickly in that type of situation. :)
Working on the tutorial right now! Done with the GIMP part, on to the Blender section!
So, the tutorial is finally up here:
http://blog.patdavid.net/2014/02/25d-parallax-animated-photo-tutorial.html
Hope this helps! :)
I did one myself a couple of days ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1IcEA6e-Ng
It’s very nice!
The girls moving legs or arms!! This is awesome!!
Fantastic, but I think that you would can do it extreme more easy if you to use the bones tools from Anime Studio. Just a tip ;-)