Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Motion Video Created From a Single Second Life Image
I've been wanting to play around with parallax video creation for a long time and finally had some time last night. This video was created from a single image captured in Second Life. I opened the original photo in Photoshop and cut it into foreground, middle-ground and background layers. I then filled in the holes of the background image to replace the excised avatar and tower sections. Next, I imported the finished layers into Motion and created a 15 second video by animating each layer separately along with an overall 3D camera move. I opened the resulting video in Final Cut Pro and added effects and titling. This is a very simple experiment playing around with parallax animation. Check out this video from the World Wildlife Fund to see what kind of amazing results are possible using the technique.
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excellent stuff, Botgirl ... probably quite time consuming?
Dirk: Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see sex and porn driving technology these days. Probably because there's so much more money to be made in the mainstream.
Soror: It would have been really time consuming if I was trying to create something approaching the level of the WWF videos. But this project didn't take more than a few hours, not counting rendering time.
Actually, if I do this again in SL I'll cheat by taking separate shots for background, foreground and middle-ground shots. That would save most of the time required for masking and background filling.
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