Joshua M Hoover

Virtual 3D photos are becoming the hot item to be able to create lately.

As the photo world and video world coalesce even deeper more and more people are working to bridge the two styles together.  One of the ways motion in images is being created is by animating 2D, still images.  By ‘converting’ the images to a 3D space there are new avenues open for using the image.

This is an area that I have been interested in but never took the time to really see how to make it all come together.  I admit that After Effects intimidates me so I am always looking for a way to avoid using it and found myself shelving ideas that I wanted to bring to life.  With the want and desire to bring more life and spice to our videos here at work I decided to take a couple hours, search out some tutorials and see what I have to do…yes, even if that meant having to use After Effects.

This afternoon I had some kinda/sorta downtime as I wait for some footage to be sent to me so I put the nose to the grind and cooked up a quick 2.5 second virtual 3D photo.  This is a rough looking vid but at least I now have the basic of basics down and it is all fine-tuning from here on out.

Test video of Virtual 3D photo: