History Channel Effect
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- tasty
What is that effect called where you mask out some elements in the foreground of the photo and pan them one way as the background pans the other way a blurs a little. Creates a faux 3d landscape from 2d.
I'm looking for a video example but I can't find it without a specific name for the effect.
- tasty0
ok after calling it the "history channel effect" here, i found something 30 seconds later via google.
- Google's pretty good at finding stuffmonospaced
- It's what they do.wmeredith
- LOL...monomarychain
- Chief0
camera projection or camera mapping.
- taxiguerrilla0
"Parallax effect"?
- johndiggity0
it's called the ken burns effect.
- johndiggity0
but seriously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken…
- pizzafire0
no seriously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par…
- but "History Channel" effect sounds good also ;)pizzafire
- detritus0
TaxiGuerilla's more on here, surely? The Ken Burns effect doesn't break apart the image and clone-fill areas, then parallax scroll.
- cannonball19780
I'm not really seeing how this is an effect.
I think this is more along the lines of "work".
- johndiggity0
google "son of ken burns effect."
- quack0
ken burns has jack to do with it
hitchcock zoom?
dutch angle?
silly film terms confusing everyone
- tasty0
guys, i found it.
- Chief0
the technique used to to create the effect you're referring to is camera mapping, or camera projection. it's done in 3d apps by mapping certain parts of the photograph onto geometry. google it. different than the ken burns effect. the evolution of the ken burns effect.
- Dodecahedron0
photoshop cs4 can do the vanishing point and various 3d things to 2d pictures and bring them into after effects
- stoplying0
I saw Richard Harrington of RhedPixel.com give a how-to on this a few years ago, and he called it Motion Control. But that was just separating a still image into a foreground, subject, and background, cloning in the empty areas on the bg, and moving the x,y and z spaces of each accordingly.
- why would anyone call this motion control? motion control is like anamatronic puppets controlling digital modelsDodecahedron
- motion control sounds too close to motion tracking. i've always heard it referred to as "parallax".Douglas
- parallax seems accurateDodecahedron