AE Tutorial - Give Stills Perspective with 2.5D Parallax and Displacement map
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ค. 2015
- Using Photoshop and After Effects without requiring any additional plugins, create a moving scene where a face show perspective change all from a single still photograph.
In this tutorial I run you through how to make displacement maps, how to cut out a subject from a still and fill in the background behind them to have a separate background and foreground, and then animate it all together in After Effects.
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Anyone watching this who's not interested in the displacement map part and just wants to learn about 2.5D parallax, you can check out my much shorter, much better recorded tutorial here! th-cam.com/video/cVtqsvsHi3M/w-d-xo.html 🤘
I love the subtlety in this, really simple but powerfully engaging. well done. thanks for sharing
Best parallax effect ever seen!!! Great job, thank you!!!
Lovely, check this out th-cam.com/video/GwqT8DwMa5w/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant! What a beautiful effect, so subtle yet adds great impact. Thank you for sharing!
thank you, today I learned about displacement maps and puppeting!
absolutely amazing tutourial! well done
Thanks a million times! Great content, great delivery :)
Really enjoyed this. Liked the speed of it all. Thank you for sharing! :D
+Craig Magee Thanks for watching! I appreciate the commitment, it's definitely one of my more lengthy tutorials!
Thanks for that very helpful tutorial.
Great video and by far the best explanation of the 2.5D effect that I have seen so far. Subscribed :D
+Time Traveler Thanks! Glad you found it helpful :-) Let me know what tutorials would interest you in After Effects, Premiere Pro, AME, Photoshop or Lightroom, and I'll see what I can do!
such a clear and concise tutorial. you've explained everything very well. this helps me so much! make more tuts please! thank you mister!
Thanks for the kind words! I will do my best to make some more tuts when I've got time between work
As the old saying has it, critics discuss art, artists discuss tools. Thank you for posting this fascinating look at your methods.•Really useful demonstration for creating the displacement map; much easier than the way I've done. •Also the demo of After Effects makes its cost clearly worthwhile for animation, rather than doing it frame by frame manually.•Your workaround for holding an image in place by dabbing the corners tells me you've been at this awhile, since that's a fix for an old problem Adobe's never resolved.
+RowdyPumper Thanks for the kind words! Indeed it's one thing I love about this software, there are a million and one ways to do the same thing! It's funny there are some issues Adobe just can't be arsed to fix..
Very well explained. I am glad you suggest using layer masks - a much better idea. I have found that when creating the clean plate you can use the original selection as you did (you can also access this by alt/option clicking on the layer mask) but then expand/grow the mask by perhaps 20 or 30 pixels using select modify before using the content aware fill. This will leave fewer artefacts to clean up.
+omartuber Good tip! Thanks :-)
Tried it, and with your helpful video I succeeded!
OMG! I've been looking for this!
Thanks for the tutorial! This was exactly what I was looking for after watching Hearthstone's 2.5d trailers
Glad it was useful!
I must say, this is pretty sweet! I knew about 2.5D, but the displacement map is something else. That opacity thing with the brush on the displacement map is cool, also. Means you don't have to up the brightness manually to get whiter and whiter.
Thanks! It's truly amazing what can be done in this software :-)
What a great method! Thank you David!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing tutorial. Thank you.
Great job!
OK wait a minute, after watching your tutorial again i realized i was experiencing the displacement map layer issue you warned about. The trouble starts in ps just like you warned. I think i have it figured out now. This is a big catastrophic issue and should be stressed more. Thank you very much!!
+Max camilion Glad I could help. It is an odd issue alright! took me a while to figure it out as I had the exact same problem when I made this tut!
@@dodmedia I may be wrong, but I think it's not an issue, but the normal behavior. When you imported in AE, you choose "retain layers size", which means, each layer will be cropped to its content size (and when masked, the content visible), not the PS artboard size. But the layers are perfectly placed into the AE Comp created by the import (which adapt the position of each layer). The thing is, you deleted it to create a new one, and then you lost the information of position the import had.
To resolve that problem, not choising "retain layer size" will resolve it, OR retain layer size, but keep the original comp created by AE, and resize it directly.
I don't like very much the retain layer size, because in 2.5D, if you edit one of the layers afterwards, and add/remove content in PS, the layer size will change and so its position in 3D space (X,Y position). Butat the same time having a comp size layer with just a little bit of content in a middle of an sea of emptiness is... overkill and difficult to handle if you, by example, try to rotate in 3D the layer.
Hope, enven after 4 years, it can help ;)
Superb sir.... great work
amazing job!
Amazing tutorial, you deserve more subscribers!
+Jeff Lee Thanks! I'm working on it, but by all means spread the word :-)
Awesome tuto, thanks!
Thank you so much.
Very easy tutorial to follow, you have a real talent for explaining the complex!
+Sgt Unit Thanks! I'm glad you found it useful. Stay tuned for more tutorials about After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop and more :-)
+David O'Dwyer This might be a silly question, but what's the importance of the layer you create by going over and over the image to show the closest parts of the image?
You don't use that layer in After Effects (or did I miss something)?
+Sgt Unit indeed I do and it's a very important layer when it comes to using the 'Displacement Map' effect on the face layer. Even though you disable the layer's visibility in the comp, AE still needs the black and white info from it to know how to distort the face properly to give it the illusion of a perspective shift. Hope that helps!
+David O'Dwyer It does, thanks a million!
That was a very well thought out, and produced tutorial, thank you for you time and effort. I sub and liked, Ill post this to my FB wall as well
+Torey Alvarez Hey thanks! Very kind words. I'm glad you found it useful! I appreciate the support :-)
took me 3 hours to get it right but this tutorial is one of the best out there. thank you!
Thanks very much, it's a fiddly procedure but once you get it right it looks great!
+DOD Media yes indeed, somehow I want to implement this in my portrait photography. but I m still looking for a way on how to sell it to consumers. thinking about for in a digital frame or something.
Thank you!! It helps me a lot
Looks fantastic
+MC TH-cam Thanks! Were you able to achieve the look with one of your own images?
Very effective technique!!! I actually watched the whole add, just for you :)
Ha! That's very kind of you, I appreciate it! Do you feel like you might want to buy a Wix website now? lol
No... I work adjacent to the advertising industry, so I've become immune to ads :)
This is amazing thank you
Lovely! ty very much really good tutorial!
Thanks for watching!
This is great!
+Marek Tran Thanks! :-)
Thank you!
Awesome tut! Thanks
You're very welcome! Make sure to subscribe for more :-)
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The best
great tutorial
Thanks!
Thanks David - wonderfully explained and executed. Off to watch your other tutorials. (Any more starring Griet?) :)
+labibbidabibbadum Ha! Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm afraid Griet's assistance was a one time thing.
I know this is an old tutorial but something to add to this. When cutting her out, when you reselect the previous selection, go up to selection>expand. Then just expand the selection so none of her is outside the selection at all, that way, when you content aware fill you won’t get any of her in the outline! Great vid bro 👊🏼
*Select>Modify>Expand
Awesome tip!!
Wow! very, very cool tutorial...thank you! #AfterEffects #MotionDesign #VFX
Cheers!
cool stuff !
15:45 that position issue can be easily solved by using the comp generated by After Effects and then scale if needed
Beautiful..
Grande! :)
thank you brother
No problem
Thank you!
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Agree. Thanks
super
+Творчество Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the great video , my question is , would this still give the same depth or the 3D effect if used on a 3D screen or a VR ?
Simple answer: no.
3D screens and VR work by having two images from slightly different perspectives which overlap when you look at them. 3D uses special phase glasses which only reveals one image per eye, tricking the mind into thinking it's looking at a 3D item in front of them. VR uses one image in front of each eye so when you look through the headset it will show you both images at the same time. This technique is called 2.5D because it only works with 1 image.
HOWEVER what you could potentially do is create this animation twice, with the same camera movement shifted back a bit, that way one eye would see more of the left of her face, and one eye would see more of the right of her face. And that SHOULD make it seem like a stereoscopic image. I'd be really interested to know if that works..
every time you hit the keyboard i think "hulk, smash". Awesome tut btw
Haha that was what I was going for. I was annoyed I didn't have my good mic and had to rely on the onboard.
Goddamn. This is what I needed. Thank you so much... Good Tut.. Very clear
Cheers! I'm glad it helped. I've definitely gotten better at making tutorials so do check out my other stuff, you might find something else you like :-)
intense tutorial
"Turn on the motion blur, because why not" I chuckled, have fun exporting xD
+Alex Danes All good things come to those who wait ;-)
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Oh? Technical jokes are "burns" now? I don't get it... I must be too old :)
Nah the reply
Great Tutorial! You sound a lot like John Howe (Artist who drew a lot of Lord of the Rings art work with Alan Lee)
Ha! You think I sound like a French Canadian? Oddest one yet! :-) Though I wish I had a fraction of his talent! Thank for watching.
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just perfect explanation, thanks. I just have a question, why do you use null objects instead of moving the camera directly? thanks
+Mar Bel Thank you! That's a good question: The reason to use null objects is because their P position slides along the Y X and Z axes, whereas the camera's position will orbit it around its point of interest. So image that the null object serves as a straight dolly and the camera's position serves as a curved dolly. Make sense? What's cool is that by using a Null Object you can combine the two and get some super smooth camera movements in a 3D space.
+DOD Media oh, that's pretty usefull, now I have a better idea of how to use cameras in AE. Thanks a lot for your answer and ofcourse, again, for the tutorial. Greetings from Colombia
This is just one option for 2.5D AE Parallax Effect and I must say the most time consuming and complexed one. I personally like layering approach or vanishing points.
+Rayhan Qadri Indeed there are many shorter and simpler ways to do it but if you want the displacement map to add that perspective shift then unfortunately you need to put the time into it. Vanishing point can look great or it can look absolutely rubbish, and it's a fair bit of work aligning all the planes once you've imported them from Photoshop. Each to their own I guess.
Instead of painting the corners, create a new layer and select all, and solid fill go to layer styles and drop the fill opacity and add a 1 pixel stroke in white with the stroke on the inside and drop the opacity to 1 percent.
works quite well just need to think in 3D when you're painting the disp map :P
& now there is an AI plugin tool that builds your disp map, but it costs over $100 and not version for Mac
im working with a wast up photo of a man holding a violin. and it is almost impossible to pant accurately. if i was able to past an empty selection (marching ants only ) in to the black layer it would work. do you know any way to past a blank selection on to a new layer?
Can you buy readymade animated and masked effects to add into these 2.5d compositions? Thanks again.
Hey you can indeed! I've not made such a package myself, but I have reviewed one which was really brilliant videohive.net/item/volumax-3d-photo-animator/13646883
Piece of advice here, you can remove her from BG quicker if after selecting you go to select->modify->expand usually sth between 10-20 px do the trick and than you hit content aware, just make sure you have some feathering in this selection 5 px is usually enough but it's obvious that these values depending on your picture resolution.
Many thanks! I've indeed recently started using that method, having seen in in a another tutorial, and I combine that with the spot healing brush after the content aware fill, to really speed through a subject extraction. Works a charm :-)
Most of the time I don't have to even touch the healing brush(I use it only when BG is more complicated), after expanding just press shift + F6 to choose feather value and with BG like this in your tut should do.
Magic Lasso doesn't work for this for some reason as far as i could find. I think you have to use the pen tool or else 'Make Selection" won't appear.
You're a very nice person and I really learned a lot from this tut. However, I can't get the displacement map to to "do anything" in AE. I followed all your instructions to the T, used all the same settings and numbers, even fiddled around for hours with the numbers. Not sure what to do.
How did you prepare the Photoshop file? Did you crop at all? Are your values ranging from black to white?
You could send me the project file and the image file and I could have a look if you'd like?
How do I show the buttons to make an object 3D? Thank you
How to make blinking eyes? :) I'm kidding. Very helpful tutorial. Fortunately, the AI already automatically generates a depth map, which greatly simplifies the process.
dat jawline tho
Great vid, it's just a shame for us beginners he stopped describing the keyboard shortcuts he's using in the After Effects portion as he did consistently in the beginning Photoshop portion.
i wonder if you are able to do it for a video
Hi! I did everything exactly as you instructed, but my disp and subject still don't line up. Do you have any other tips then the corners? That's not helping me either. I can't say whether anything else works since I can't get passed this.
Hey I'm sorry to hear this, did you do any cropping of the original image in Photoshop? That tends to be the one that causes issues with the Disp Map for some reason. Make sure to keep the original crop of the photo, even if it means loads of empty canvas space.
I tried it again with using the original selection, I made another layer. It worked, but still not as well as you did in the video. I guess I need practice on the selection of the layers closest to the camera. I really appreciate your response, feedback and videos. You make it easy to learn and you get straight to the point, you don't take too long to explain...=)
can't see how much the displacement layer affected the change.. the puppet pin probably did the whole movement plus the camera markers
Why do you need the displacement map as a layer and also as a separate file? Why can't you just use the layer instead?
I'm trying to follow your instruction, but the biggest changing is with the Puppet Pin, not the Displacement Map. So, with or without DM, parallax is already happen smoothly
Would you happen to know why whenever I try to use content aware to fill in the missing area, I always get the error message that there aren't enough opaque pixels?
Hmm first thing that comes to mind is that you might have feathering on your selection tool? That can cause the selected area to be too small for it to work
@@dodmedia Thank for replying. Realized I was doing it all wrong after fully watching your vid. Cheers
Hey guys, also check VoluMax 3D Photo animator for pictures and portraits : goo.gl/lqtTf1
18:12 "Now You're in the Sunken Place"
Please help, I tried to follow along and when I have it set up as you do in this video, when I test the movement on the horizontal displacement -the effect won't work ont he face where I obviously need it to, instead it takes place below. I can't figure out how to get the effect to only affect the face of the picture. I double click on the layer trying to figure this out and cannot. What is going on?
+Max camilion Hi Max, did you move the layer's position in Photoshop by any chance? Either the face layer or the Disp Map layer? I've noticed for some reason After Effects struggles if you do that. Try Pre-Comping the Disp Map layer and the Subject layer into their own individual comps and apply the effects to those comps instead. That should do the trick.
Ok I'll try that!! Thank you very much for that prompt reply BTW!
Ok so I precomposed the face layer and then brought the black and white over layer above it. I applied the dsip map effect to my face layer after precomposing it. It seems to have worked however my face layer which includes downward below chest now moves entirely when I only wanted the face to move. -And it seems that the black and white luminance layer isn't needed after all. It doesn't seem right according to how you've done it. Any ideas??
I played around somemore with it and looked at some other tutorials. My workflow isn't like yours or the others. When I do exactly what you do, I can' get the same effect. I'm on a mac with AE cs6.
Can't place the pins. It says 'Mesh Generation Failed'...
thnx for the great tutorial. you might need to change your microphone, though. the noise is there, like waves on the beach.
No problem, yeah sorry about the mic. This is quite an old tutorial now, and I was on the road so I just relied on my macbook's mic. Never again ;-) I use a Zoom H1 now.
How can we do this with footage? Not just an image ??
umm... I guess the same way, but you shouldn't need to do it with footage... That's the whole point, footage can give you that movement naturally.
Real question! Why not just eliminate the cloning of the background by taking a separate picture of the background before the foreground enters the picture?
Because the idea is to teach the trick. Sure that would work if you shot it yourself and knew at time of shooting that you wanted to animate it. But knowing how to clone out the background means you can do this to any photo.
you dont explain the shortcuts on the keyboard in ae, im so stuck because i dont know the software
Hi Sian, I'm sorry about that. I think if you're new to After Effects it may be worth your while following some tutorials on getting started, which would cover many shortcuts which will speed up your workflow considerably. It would certainly make this tutorial much easier to follow!
It's fine! I soon figured it out:) I'm using this as a part of my art GCSE and it looks amazing! Thanks for the tutorial
Ah cool! Best of luck then, hope you get an A! :-)
Great tutorial. Unfortunately, I'm a total noob and got lost with all of the shortcut keys.
Thanks! And sorry about getting lost. This is one of my older tutorials where I didn't realise people might still be learning and I should slow it down! 😅
hi my layers don't align in after effects and distort the effect. can anyone help?
Are both your layers the same dimensions and resolution? For me it caused issues when the disp map layer was a different crop than the original image
i do the same as you do but when i try to play with the displacement map it doesn't look good. (i doubled check all the parameters) got any idea why ?
thanks
the process and result is going to vary slightly for each photo. is there any way you could show me an example of what you're getting?
ok iv just checked-
when i try to create just 2 layers in photoshop- the map and the image itself, it works fine.
but when i separate the object from the background and create 3 layers- the displacement map looks bad.
+Edoe Hagin I've had this issue before when I was using a cropped version of a photo in Photoshop. If you create a gray solid layer in After Effects and put some noise on it, and then apply the displacement map to that layer, does the displacement of the noise match the location of the actual disp map, or is it off centre? Does that make sense?
+David O'Dwyer not sure i understood you but i when i try it the displacement of the noise is off center
+Edoe Hagin Ok, it's what I thought then. Try pre-composing the displacement map layer and choose move the asset into a new comp. Then use that new comp as the displacement map instead. That should fix it.
I can't see that puppet fx in my Ae
Hi, i've done everything that you, but after i create a composition and i put my subject's in it,those stop at 1 second and i can't lenghten them to 7 seconds. Can you help me please
+Lampapa I wonder are you perhaps forgetting to unckeck "Import as image sequence" in the import panel? It's an easy one to miss.
+DOD Media Thanks,that was the problem,keep up making theese cool tutorial vids,it help's a lot.
+Lampapa Glad the problem was an easy one to fix!
Can't seem to get this working in cc2018. Weird
iammoog weird it's working fine for me, I'm on latest version of everything. Which part isn't working specifically?
DOD Media hi, when I apply the displacement effect and select my new layer and select luminance, but it doesn't affect my image at all. I've even tried using a black and white check layer, but no result.
Are you certain you didn't change the scale of the photoshop document or the crop at any point? That seems to be the main issue with the displacement map effect. Try creating a small solid and then precomping it, and then use that precomp as a displacement map, and see if it has any effect?
Well, I made my photoshop doc at 1920x1080, so that should cacnel out that issue i think? I did try pre-comping it anyway, but no change. I'll take another look at my project later, but thanks for the help!
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This is really cool but making her smile while moving would be cooler
i dont see refine edge. have the latest adobe as of today.
Hey yeah Photoshop's layout has changed somewhat! Not entirely sure where refine edge is now, I've not used the feature in a while!
Thanks for the quick reply! I ended up just zooming in a using an eraser. Takes longer, but much more precise :P Cheers!
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great Tutorial. But I just can't stand the sound of the macbooks keyboard and the touch panel.
Well, I'm glad you're not someone who allows the distracting clicks, in a free tutorial I made while I was on the road, to affect your appreciation of the lesson therein. I'm not sure what you want me to do about it now, nearly two years after posting, in any case. Clean mics were used in almost all my other tutorials. :-)
while rendering it takes 5 hours rendering it has got 19780 frames can anyone help
Hi Sri, first of all what is the resolution of the photo that you're using, and what are your computer specs?
i got 8gb rom with 512mb grphic car i 3 processor ,1920*1080 is the resolution
What speed is your i3 processor? After Effects relies mainly on Processor and RAM. your Graphics card sadly doesn't play much of a role (yet) :-(
So you're using a photo that you've cropped to 1920x1080? And then placing it in a comp that is also 1920x1080, right?
Also what frame rate is your Comp set to? If you're using 30fps and you've got 19780 total frames, that's nearly 11 minutes of parallax, which is definitely going to take some time to for Ae to render.
thankss yes it was 30 fps.. i think i should change it to 24fps thanks..:)
that fake 3d is awesome
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DOD Media u have a video about that 3d?? or name for search pls.
What do you mean fake 3D? This is 2.5D so fake 3D.
i talk about that grey scales for use in after effect helping in 3d view. my english is bad.
Yes it's actually done in Photoshop, you can see how in this tutorial :-) Your English is fine!
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