How to do this effect?

[casko]

I have been wondering how can i get this effect, if someone could give me some tips please...

here is the video: http://www.engsfors.com/suddenly/

thanks

[engsfors]

Hi there Casko.

Glad you like the effect, or at least I suppose you do....

It´s quite easy to make it, all you have to do i so spend some time masking out the separate layers in Photoshop for example, then you line them up in AfterEffects and put them into different Z-space positions and add a camera. You will notice that you will get some limitations on how you are able to move the camera, but it´s a very simple way to make a nice effect.

Also, Andrew has posted a tutorial on how to make this effect her on videocopilot, I bet you want to check that out:

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/virtual_3d_photos/

Go create bro!!

// Magnus Engsfors

[casko]

thanks a lot!

ps: your animations are THE BEST!

[pokeitwithstick]

That really is very nice indeed..

All AE?

Great work.

[engsfors]

Thank you.

Yea, it´s all AE except the intro and credits where the text is done in Cinema 4D.

[psweezy]

very well done. Bravo. You should make a tut.

[engsfors]

Thank you.

As I said, Andrew has already made a tutorial on this effect. You don´t have to look any further than the page you are already at:

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/virtual_3d_photos/

[gordonl09s]

OK, so for the guy hanging in mid air, did you just take multiple pictures of the guy from different angles? From what it sounds like, you only had one camera, so you didn't use multiple cameras shooting in sync. Did you have the guy laying on something that you cloned out in PS to get that position he's in?

[casko]

hey its a photo montage or a real scenario? the photo is perfect. how did the photographer take it? the guy was jumping or what? its exelent

[gordonl09s]

hey its a photo montage or a real scenario? the photo is perfect. how did the photographer take it? the guy was jumping or what? its exelent

Yeah, I looked at Andrew's tutorial and there's more going on here than just some cutting apart a pic in PS. Notice how the guy's arms distort as the camera gets closer, fisheye effect perhaps? And yeah, the pic is pretty high quality and from different angles. Like I said, you had to have taken several photos of the guy from different angles. As to whether he was falling, possible, but you would have had to of used a very fast shutter speed to capture him minimal motion blur. I'm still guessing he was laying on something that you cloned out.

[dimib]

He used the puppet tool for the arm's distort, I think. Am I correct?

[gordonl09s]

He used the puppet tool for the arm's distort, I think. Am I correct?

That's a possibility. Upon further inspection of the clip, that distorting was used on the jacket as well in several places. Like I said, it's how they got the guy in that position is what I want to know.

[muhannad_alani]

nice job, and for guys position:


- u can hang him with green robs
- u cam make this pos using a white bed and then use keylight (seveal one's).


by the way i'm from iraq and it's just what i think

[kira]

engsfors make a tutorial, or upload your project PLEASE.

[dayaki]

engsfors make a tutorial, or upload your project PLEASE.

Dont you read the post above yours, he said Andrew has already done a tutorial on it, so check andrew's tutorial.

@engsfors,

Can you kindly tell us how you got the guy into such position mid-air?

[praisex]

nice stuff, im waiting for dude's answers myself!

[casko]

here is my try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqDpC0WlGO4

[dayaki]

nice try, got the same sound but i think would have been better if you use same technique as he did, i mean taking shots from different angle of the man all at once.

am still wondering if he actually took shot of the man from different angles or he took one shot and manipulate it to go different angles.

[visualoutrage]

This is nice effect engsfors. How about the music. Was is downloaded or maked for that project? If so what audio program was used??

[Minymurf]

i think it looks more difficult than it actually is

The particles make it look like the photo is actually moving

Plus i think he would've been suspended and filmed on a high speed to get it so smooth

-Andrew

[klam]

Can we get the name of the song please?

[visualoutrage]

The name would be nice too.

[VFXxModeXSquad]

The name of the song is "Twenty Minutes." It's by edIT. You can find it on ITunes!

[dayaki]

would really love to know if the guy was suspended on air or he uses different camera from different angles to capture the guy on air, i pm him but he didn't return my mail.

could any1 be of help?

[engsfors]

Hi there everyone.

Seems like this video was quite successful, glad to hear that so many of you liked it.

A lot of people has asked about the setup of the scene, how the guy in mid air got up there.
Well, i do know since i´m the one hanging there. The scene was shot with me hanging in two ropes stretched across the scene, one below my shoulders and one across the back of my legs/knees.

Friend and photographer Martin Nordqvist took a series of shots from alot of different angles, far more then what was used in the video, Using a single Canon Eos 5D SLR camera and a Profoto Flash with a reflecting umbrella on a tripod. The shooting took like two hours, so i´m glad to see from all the positive feedback was worth the pain in my back and my legs.

The ropes was taken away in Photoshop, the arms and the sweater was distorted by using the puppet tool in After Effects where all the other animations was made except the title sequence that was made in Cinema 4D.

The song is by edIT, and is called Twenty Minutes taken from his album Crying over pros for no reason. Go buy that album, it´s awesome.