During Melbourne's great cloud-over of 2015 caused by the R Stevenson AP140 purchase (
) I've been filling in time by exploring options for portraying my images in pseudo-3D. Inspired by the amazing J-P Metsavanio's work (see
here), I've spent hours googling various techniques. I admit I am stumped by JP's approach, which is so subtle and sophisticated that I suspect it's done via a medical imaging program that I doubt I'll ever be able to afford.
Anyway, here's my first full test that's clearly less subtle, but proves the approach can work quite nicely. I only came to grips with Adobe After Effects a few days ago, so I'll only get better in the future. This is 18 layers of hand-edited textures from one image, all carefully placed to give the parallax effect seen, with a camera then animated to fly through the scene.
Hope you enjoy my little experiment! I"m now working on setting up a Triffid fly-through courtesy of Alistair Sam who's sent me his image to be animated.
Link to the short movie