I've linked some of the most important tools and resources that I used to help create this in the description, and I will definitely think about creating a tutorial in the near future :D
PLEASE strongly consider making a tutorial! I've been super curious about this but I knew developing the method would be a huge time investment. Even if you crudely covered the basics it could save others SO much time. Even if you don't though.. This was super rad man. Well done!
the more images u put the more blurry it gets, you need a sheet with higher LPI to get a crisp image, you dont get blur in 2 images since the sheet itself forces you to shift your view, however the more images you cram in there the darker the images also appear even though they arent, if you want to get high quality looking results, raise the brightness of your images, avoid small details, form over detail is what gives great results with these
Yeah I would love to try an experiment with even higher LPI at some point! I was surprised by how much detail was still visible in the desk scene, but I totally agree that the simpler images like the car work way better :D
Unfortunately, I don't remember the title. This was way back in the 90s. If I knew I'd probably have ordered a copy from someone's collection or a library refurbish. @@eclat4641
My favorite was the bullet shattering the glass tbh. I liked the concept while a bit "rough" the movement and rewind time functionality aspect of it was cool. Also agree a bigger style poster would be amazing.
Yeah I did like that one, I think it was just that the frames blended together a bit too much which kinda ruined the effect. But the time warp was really fun to play with and probably should have tried more of those!
the cool thing about these is that because the image shown depends on the angle you're viewing it at, it provides two different images/viewing angles for each eye, resulting in full stereoscopic 3d and real perceived depth.
Can’t wait for your next tutorial. You have described what I went through with lenticular printing. 4 printers , vertical/horizontal sheets, 4 x 6, 8 x 10, cant’ remember how many different lenticular lines, softwares, tutorials, youtubers, you name it. Money spent. And so many hours, one year, gave it up. Will give it another try with your help!
I thought of doing this years and years ago, even looking up sources for the lenticular sheets, but I quickly realized how tricky it would be and moved on. It's cool that someone actually saw it through.
You can use Photoshop as well, using masks to create the interlaced images. I came across this video because I'm working on my own lenticular prints, not with 12 images, just 3 for now. I think the car example turned out really great. In my mind, lenticular images give a 2d image just a little bit of depth, but the idea of even more depth never crossed my mind....
Hey man! If you still remember how you did after 8 months lol, would you mind sharing your calculations for using 3 images in photoshop ? I still have no idea on how you can possibly do in ps. I'm a student and trying to do a cool but budget project with lenticular sheets!
You can also take 3D shots using your camera, you just need to slide it horizontally. You can also create hyper perspective by taking photos of distant mountains, for example, from several viewpoints that might be spread out over 10m or more.
@@iamsushi1056 It's pretty much just as he says. Ideally you want to move the camera by the distance between your eyes but I found just taking a step to the right good enough.
@@iamsushi1056 I’d suggest starting making red/cyan 3D photos in Photoshop, it’s very easy to blend the layers, switching off the relevant colour channels, to get instant results. You have to be a little careful in aligning the two shots, they obviously need to be perfectly horizontal, but it’s also helpful if they’re both converging on the same subject, especially if it’s close (your eyes naturally converge).
The ideas for these videos are so unique, underrated, original, and entertaining! I would say that the more use of cut scenes in your videos like going from you talking to what your talking about, maybe camera movements maybe different backgrounds like recording on your porch and then cutting the audio, but lots of transitions in videos keep the audience engaged, I can see that in every one of your videos you have been getting better and better at editing! Great job!!
Not to rain on this guy's parade, but I saw fully animated versions of these in stores over ten years ago. There was a horse galloping, and a penguin doing.. Something.
@@tahunuva4254 what do you mean by fully animated? when you were looking from side to side it was animating or there was some sort of video playing that you were able to look at from different angles?
@@Daniel_VolumeDown The former. It was pretty smooth too, if memory serves correctly, around 10-ish frames in total. This was in Europe tho, so they might not have been produced in the US
Yeah using more than 2 images for a 3D effect is not new. It's one of the standard variations when you Google lenticular prints over the decades. There are some youtubers like Michael Brown are dedicated to teaching lenticulars (ready-made apps, special camera and printing techniques like this are covered)
That remind me of zebra holographics plates. This is astonishing that you managed to do it by yourself and frustrating from their part because they did something outragously interesting but nothing more in years ! For almost 10 years i was dreaming of '3d' posters doable with all in one solution from A to Z (including apps, sheats, lenticular stickers, or even personal printers specialized for that purpose). I liked your video a lot, thanks for that keen research and time spent on it !
Giving one of these for a small birthday gift would be the best gift ever because they could just keep it on their desk and get mesmerised by the animation like movement of the picture
You have 5.6K subs and you put out this video? It honestly looked as good as a video from a 2mil channel. I know this is not some super high tech thing but these "holograms" have always fascinated me as a kid. Very nicely done. Was super fun to watch you figuring this out :)
Love this so much! I def wanna try and will be back here when I inevitably get stuck and have questions! I recently made my first lenticular art of my first dance with my wife. I used photoshop to line up two photos and then used the Walgreens service you referenced to print it for me and now I feel like the possibilities are endless!
I messed around with this back in the 90s, and early 2000s. Lots of mistakes were made. Wrong sized lenticles, incorrect print resolutions, you name it. But it was still fun, I did manage to get one good image to line up. It is extremely tricky to get lenticular lens to align just right. LOL Thanks for sharing this.
In the 1990s my parents had a camera that would take 3D pictures, the company that made the camera also developed the prints. It used this same technique.
My Man, you truly are a DIAMOND in TH-cam, you're so creative, passionate, entertaining and passionate about everything revolving around this TH-cam channel; I can't believe you have such small audience, for such great content. Best of wishes my man, truly in love with what you're doing.
As an 80s kid, i subconsciously collect lenticular images, stickers,postcards and thought it was expensive to d.i.y., thabk you so much for sharing your project videos 🙏🏽
Oh yeah, very nice experience, good work sir! I tried that several years ago and the maximum number of images I've been able to combine was 5. To do that, I placed a simple object I centered on a turn table, and I used a high-resolution camera with a very narrow view angle (300 mm lens) I took a few pictures with a little rotation difference between them. Then I created a tram to digitally independently slice every image to use in strips; each has a number, from 001 to the number of each lenticular section, so because I had 5 images by every lens. I then put all which has the same number on a colon under the lense. My printer was able to print up to 1200 DPI BTW. The alignment of the print under the lenticular sheets was not an easy task. It was so time-consuming, I only did 3 images. In the industrial plans who does that in large quantity, I think they have special tools for the alignment. Anyway, to me it was a challenge I have no intention to repeat it lol. It was fun at the end, but very frustration to figure out how to do those. So, I have total respect for your experiments, I know from firsthand experience how difficult it is.
Kudos for seeing this through Sam! I myself bought Lenticular foil almost year ago, tried it with printed images few times, failed and gave up. You motivated me now to try harder and make it work. Thank you for that, man. P.S. where did you get calibration sheet? That looks really usefull.
That’s awesome that you gave it a shot, I was definitely close to giving up many times when it wasn’t working. But then once you get it it’s pretty magical! For the calibration sheet, I generated it using the software from 3Dependable.com. It’s a free trial where a pitch test is the only unlocked feature, although there were still some weird settings I had to play around with. I hope you’re able to try again and let me know if you have any other questions!!
Something I'd try is distorting the camera perspective to better match the shape the print would take up at that angle from a viewer's perspective, since the perspective warping present when rotating the prints is a bit distracting, and distorting it in a way that counters the distortion could help.
Wow, so this was what you were planning to do next in 3D. This is actually a really cool use of lenticular photos! I did not know that much about them until now. Great job!
Thanks!! Haha yeah my computer was definitely struggling with some of the renders (especially the outro one). But yeah I think lenticular photos are so cool, but I don’t feel like people utilize 3D software to get some of those effects very often
@@sam-beige Yeah I imagine it did haha! it seems like you really know your way around Blender with all the custom models you created. Yes, they can make awesome pictures and bookmarks. You are actually the first person I've seen make something like this in 3D!
I feel like I still have so much to learn lol, but I did the classic donut tutorial a couple years ago and then just random projects here and there ever since. But I think it’s so cool especially for being completely free! That sounds awesome, a bookmark to go along with a specific book would be so cool! Haha should have talked to you about that before, would have been cool to include in the video!
@@sam-beige Same actually! I did his donut tutorial too a few years ago! Yeah Blender is quite the tool belt for a free program. Yes haha! If you figure out to make one for your secret compartment books or something else that would be really cool.
It would be cool to match the angle of rotation in the 3D render image, with the angle that you have to look at the picture in real life, so it would really seem more realistic
Do you have a method for making a stereoscopic version using just 2 images? I would love to make a poster sized version that can display left-eye and right-eye images from a comfortable distance. Seems doable but probably more complicated than I think haha
damn bro i just woke up thinking in this exactly idea!!! im a brazillian graphic designer (sorry for my english haha) that works with blender and graphic design. For me, this has a great potencial for brand value! Thank you for sharing your tests and methods
Wow! that was really mind blowing. I saw many Lectingullar images in touristic shops, but I ve never saw such a process before. You are a very genius scientist. Congratulations for your amazing discoveries! 👍👍👍 you have a new subscriber to your channel.
When time allows, I should be able to make some interlacing software, as I have a need for it too, and it would be a fun challenge. I just need to know what features are needed for it to be useful for lenticular applications. Blender supports rendering interlaced stereoscopic images, but that's only for the L/R perspectives as far as I know. (I use that feature when modeling by sending the 3D view to my stereoscopic monitor while using the 2D monitor for the main Blender window)
@@BrickcasterI'm pretty sure that's what I used when I was playing with the lenticular stuff a while back. You could generate a mask by tiling one white and one black pixel and merge the pictures by adding. That's about all I remember about it but there's enough info in the imagemagick docs to get it done.
Hi Sam, I would always avoid using the word 'holographic' when the technology is not holographic, but congrats on the results. 3D lenticulars are still (or again) very relevant! Interlacing may at first be a daunting task, but I managed to make it quite an easy task in Maxon's Cinema 4D. Now it only takes just a few, albeit intricate steps (that I devised myself) to interlace any number of images!
You can get the lens from an old laptop screen even if the screen is cracked that's just the LCD that screen cracked. That film is used to decrease and spread the light behind the LCD screen equally throughout the LCD. The only other difference could be the thickness that you're actually looking for.
This was the best demonstration of the possibilities of lenticular printing I've seen. Thanks for sharing! I'm curious what software do you use for the interlacing step? *Edit:* looks like you chose Grape 4.3 based on your screenshot at 2:24. Thanks!
@@sam-beige Yes! I'm going to first try with frames from video where the camera revolves around the subject (since my 3D skills are non-existent). Calibration is the first challenge.
That sounds awesome! I'd love to check it out when you finish it if you post it anywhere! And yeah, the calibration was tricky to figure out, but let me know if you have any other questions :D
@@mckamey thank you for the information discussed, I'm trying to learn all I can first so that I could integrate a lenticular lense into another project of mine cause I believe it will add a beautiful layer of complexity to the result
Hi guys. Wow, this video really got me inspired! Do you guys have the methodology written somewhere so people can refer to? My questions are more like, what are the specs of the printer? Most importantly, how did you end up on that spec. What were the procedures of testing? And finally any recommendations of place to buy at a good cost?
Your video is really fun! When Shrek appeared, I was drinking water and ended up with water all over my desk haha! Thank you! Thanks to your video inspiration, I want to use Blender to create my own card. Your car card looks really cool. I really want to create one myself. I sent you an email and used GPT to help me with the translation. I hope you can feel my love for your video! I wish your channel more and more success!!🤩🤩🤩
Vendo esse video me veio a mente uma exposição de fotografias holograficas que fui conhecer aqui no Rio nos anos 90, até hoje fico impressionado com o que ví, fotos de objetos tão reais que a gente tinha até vontade de segurar de tão perfeito, como um revolver sobre a mesa, ou um microscópio e era tão real que a intenção de olhar no ocular era certa!! Não entendo o porque a holografia não é mais explorada nos dias atuais, pois até hoje ainda não ví nada em termos de 3D que o superasse!
yay! Challenge accepted. I just bought the largest& thinest light box I could find, a fake window frame, and some courtains. If you think is a cool content idea please use it :D
This is absolutely amazing! So cool! I have a question; Could you display the special image on a computer, and place the lens over the computer screen? Then could you have a semi 3d computer screen?
Thanks Nathan! That’s a good question, I believe it’s technically possible if the screen had the exact pixels per inch required for the lenticular lens. That would be pretty cool!
Blown away with the car one. That would be an excellent poster for the end of a hallway. Ideally a T intersecting hallway. If I find myself with a wall and as I described. I will 100% do that
Great video, I've subscribed. I love lenticular art, I don't really like flips but 3D images with depth is so interesting. I've tried to create some myself on my channel. This subject requires a lot of patience, I start some then give up but after a while I get excited and restart and the cycle repeats again 😂😂
Thank so much!! Yeah they are really tough to figure out but that’s so cool that you’ve made some, I just saw the Liverpool one you made!! Love the cards you make as well 😄
Thanks for the response and compliments. I am trying to achieve the effect you did with the car but it just doesn't work. I have given your video so many views 😂
There is another method you might be interested in looking at for producing autostereoscopic images (of which lenticular stereo prints are but one type). I wish I could say it's less involved lol. It's called a parallax barrier. In principal it's similar to lenticular in that the intent is to have the left and right eye see separate images that simulate the different viewing angles/perspectives our eyes would be seeing if we were looking at the object or scene in real life. While lenticular lens sheets accomplish this by refracting or "steering" the separate images to our left and right eyes, a parallax barrier blocks one image or the other from being seen by either eye. Instead of the lenticular sheet, you have a transparency with many very thin, very closely packed vertical lines. If the transparency is thick enough there'll be some distance between the vertical lines and the lines of the image you overlay it on - the stereoscopic or other interlaced image is designed in pretty much the same way as for lenticular (with the same types of precision requirements of course). One disadvantage is that because the parallax barrier is actually blocking reflected light from the image beneath the image is much much darker. Typically, parralax barrier type images are displayed using a lightbox or similar backlit source (you can even experiment using a monitor as either a backlight with a solid white background OR perhaps more interestingly, to display the vertically self-illuminated interlaced image itself. The allows for displaying fully animated stereoscopic content etc. It's really challenging but super cool if you can pull it off. If you ever try and succeed it would make a great video wink wink nudge nudge. Cheers!
Oh that's a very cool effect. I know it's possible to get "true" 3d effects with lenticular lenses if the viewing angle is close enough each eye ends up seeing a different image. I'm not sure if your images work out properly, but it's not impossible you're seeing actual depth on top of the illusion the motion gives.
Yeah I've heard that too! I don't think I achieved that effect with these regardless of the viewing distance, but that would be cool to have both the rotating effect with the "true" 3d effect!
Really cool. I felt like this stuff was peak quality as kid toys. I also weirdly enjoyed how it felt, like scratching the Batman dvd case lol. I wonder if it's possible to create some kind of looping cylinder, mechanical thing, unless any kind of slight bending totally ruins it. In that case, maybe more of a conveyor belt type of rig.
you can do this with strip masking layers in photoshop. this trick is first squishing the photo by the number of vectors -1 /1 cutting it projecting it to a mask layer this can be setup as a plugin for as many angles as you want the blur is a focus shift problem from the lens design but adding a black frame at the start and end with drastically reduce the blur. i have a lenticular lens on a 8.7k 17in IPS display on a pi this only splits 1:4 and it use 1:2 to get a 3d effect
That's really cool, love the deskscene you created. Have you tried filming something, like orbiting your face with a fast shutterspeed so there's no blur, and print that out? Could be cool too! yeaarss ago i worked on lenticular TV's. we would make content for a screen that had a similar lens on it, and we had to render out 9 different angles, and that way you could watch it basically on a 3D screen without using glasses. that could maybe be fun video too to do! that you put that big lens sheet you have on a screen and make an animated 3D video :)
Thanks Edwin! Yeah I'll have to try with photos sometime, lining everything up seemed like a big challenge :) And those TVs sound super cool, I think an animated version of this kinda thing would be really neat to see!
Thanks! Kinda tough questions to answer since there’s so many variables 😬 I think there’s a ton of lens types, but I’d definitely like to play around with these more in the future when I have more resources or a better workshop!
Man....I'm starting to feel the side effects you feeling too after getting into 2D lenticular....lol! Maybe that's why not a lot of people are doing it. We need tutorials videos on lenticular larger size 8x10. Great Content!
Oh yeah, it can be quite the challenge! I’m starting to think I need to create a Discord server for the people wanting to make these, lol. Glad you’re enjoying the content!
Yeah that's the problem for me as well. I've tried to figure out how to make them at home for years but everything is outdated or not explained clearly and fully. I'm still waiting for a newer software for this to use so that it's not so discouraging to try.
@@kirakira878 I would use the expression " Go big or go home." I know there are these UV printer out there that can be purchase ; and can precisely printed on the lens. I would say order one of these at a high price if you want to go big. I wasted a lot of photo paper just to get one picture right.
@@chewysbucketlist6875 That's a pretty neat idea, but I don't know how the process works on this either, I've never used a uv printer yet. What UV printer brand is it? Or it doesn't matter? I'll see if I can invest in one.
That's great! Have you thought about fly-eye lens sheets for both horizontal and vertical parallax motion? I've only seen a few old examples on youtube. Would love for that to be revived.
Yeah, those are really interesting! I'd love to try making something with that lens at some point, but it seems to have even less information on it than lenticular lenses lol
The TH-cam algorithm is taking this video up. Anyway, this is also the first TH-cam video I witnessed when the creator said Subscribe, the subscribe button animated! That's neat. And it works, I am now subscribed. The related video from you look interesting so I'll probably check them out later too. GG
I've linked some of the most important tools and resources that I used to help create this in the description, and I will definitely think about creating a tutorial in the near future :D
I. bet you could sell these - form a company ...
Would love to see a tutorial!!
I'm Excited to see the Step by step Tutorial on this topic 🤩
Please do. I was wondering for ages to do this.
PLEASE strongly consider making a tutorial! I've been super curious about this but I knew developing the method would be a huge time investment. Even if you crudely covered the basics it could save others SO much time. Even if you don't though.. This was super rad man. Well done!
the more images u put the more blurry it gets, you need a sheet with higher LPI to get a crisp image, you dont get blur in 2 images since the sheet itself forces you to shift your view, however the more images you cram in there the darker the images also appear even though they arent, if you want to get high quality looking results, raise the brightness of your images, avoid small details, form over detail is what gives great results with these
Yeah I would love to try an experiment with even higher LPI at some point! I was surprised by how much detail was still visible in the desk scene, but I totally agree that the simpler images like the car work way better :D
@@sam-beige Will you ever make a video trying a higher LPI?
Please keep doing videos about lenticular printing, the options are endless, it's awesome!@@sam-beige
@@sam-beigecmon do it for your next video.
More please this is super cool!❤
We simply are not going to gloss over how good your 3D rendering work is.
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@@spadaacca i love that word
@@queefgod420me too
I used to have an entire storybook filled with these 3d images...
It's too bad they fell out of production. 100% the coolest book I ever owned.
What book ?
Unfortunately, I don't remember the title.
This was way back in the 90s.
If I knew I'd probably have ordered a copy from someone's collection or a library refurbish. @@eclat4641
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I must have such a book! Image Harry potter in 3d
My favorite was the bullet shattering the glass tbh. I liked the concept while a bit "rough" the movement and rewind time functionality aspect of it was cool. Also agree a bigger style poster would be amazing.
Yeah I did like that one, I think it was just that the frames blended together a bit too much which kinda ruined the effect. But the time warp was really fun to play with and probably should have tried more of those!
@@sam-beigeYou should put the Shrek one in Halloween. Would creep out a bunch
the cool thing about these is that because the image shown depends on the angle you're viewing it at, it provides two different images/viewing angles for each eye, resulting in full stereoscopic 3d and real perceived depth.
I remember lots in the 90’s .
Goosebumps cards,
Manny things were .
I've always been super fascinated by 3D and Lenticular technologies, and this video combines the two. Amazing stuff!
Can’t wait for your next tutorial. You have described what I went through with lenticular printing. 4 printers , vertical/horizontal sheets, 4 x 6, 8 x 10, cant’ remember how many different lenticular lines, softwares, tutorials, youtubers, you name it. Money spent. And so many hours, one year, gave it up. Will give it another try with your help!
I thought of doing this years and years ago, even looking up sources for the lenticular sheets, but I quickly realized how tricky it would be and moved on. It's cool that someone actually saw it through.
You can use Photoshop as well, using masks to create the interlaced images. I came across this video because I'm working on my own lenticular prints, not with 12 images, just 3 for now. I think the car example turned out really great. In my mind, lenticular images give a 2d image just a little bit of depth, but the idea of even more depth never crossed my mind....
Hey man! If you still remember how you did after 8 months lol, would you mind sharing your calculations for using 3 images in photoshop ? I still have no idea on how you can possibly do in ps. I'm a student and trying to do a cool but budget project with lenticular sheets!
You can also take 3D shots using your camera, you just need to slide it horizontally. You can also create hyper perspective by taking photos of distant mountains, for example, from several viewpoints that might be spread out over 10m or more.
Is there a tutorial for that?
@@iamsushi1056 It's pretty much just as he says. Ideally you want to move the camera by the distance between your eyes but I found just taking a step to the right good enough.
@@iamsushi1056 I’d suggest starting making red/cyan 3D photos in Photoshop, it’s very easy to blend the layers, switching off the relevant colour channels, to get instant results. You have to be a little careful in aligning the two shots, they obviously need to be perfectly horizontal, but it’s also helpful if they’re both converging on the same subject, especially if it’s close (your eyes naturally converge).
The ideas for these videos are so unique, underrated, original, and entertaining! I would say that the more use of cut scenes in your videos like going from you talking to what your talking about, maybe camera movements maybe different backgrounds like recording on your porch and then cutting the audio, but lots of transitions in videos keep the audience engaged, I can see that in every one of your videos you have been getting better and better at editing! Great job!!
Thank you so much!! Yeah definitely trying to improve with each video and those are all great ideas for improving it even more!
Not to rain on this guy's parade, but I saw fully animated versions of these in stores over ten years ago. There was a horse galloping, and a penguin doing.. Something.
@@tahunuva4254 what do you mean by fully animated? when you were looking from side to side it was animating or there was some sort of video playing that you were able to look at from different angles?
@@Daniel_VolumeDown The former. It was pretty smooth too, if memory serves correctly, around 10-ish frames in total.
This was in Europe tho, so they might not have been produced in the US
Yeah using more than 2 images for a 3D effect is not new. It's one of the standard variations when you Google lenticular prints over the decades.
There are some youtubers like Michael Brown are dedicated to teaching lenticulars (ready-made apps, special camera and printing techniques like this are covered)
The production quality and execution of this video AND project are really impressive!! Keep it up
the ammount of effort you put into this is crazy! this so awesome! hope to see more like this in the future!
That remind me of zebra holographics plates. This is astonishing that you managed to do it by yourself and frustrating from their part because they did something outragously interesting but nothing more in years ! For almost 10 years i was dreaming of '3d' posters doable with all in one solution from A to Z (including apps, sheats, lenticular stickers, or even personal printers specialized for that purpose).
I liked your video a lot, thanks for that keen research and time spent on it !
Giving one of these for a small birthday gift would be the best gift ever because they could just keep it on their desk and get mesmerised by the animation like movement of the picture
The 3d car hologram looks really cool
Thanks! That one is my favorite!
You have 5.6K subs and you put out this video? It honestly looked as good as a video from a 2mil channel.
I know this is not some super high tech thing but these "holograms" have always fascinated me as a kid.
Very nicely done. Was super fun to watch you figuring this out :)
Thanks George, that means so much!!! Yeah I love these things too, hoping to do a bigger version at some point :)
Love this so much! I def wanna try and will be back here when I inevitably get stuck and have questions!
I recently made my first lenticular art of my first dance with my wife. I used photoshop to line up two photos and then used the Walgreens service you referenced to print it for me and now I feel like the possibilities are endless!
I can not get over how COOL this is, and you saw it through! Amazing work mate!
Dude just keep on posting you are gonna blow up soon it's clear as day :)
First video from you, new sub! Can't wait to check out more of your stuff
I messed around with this back in the 90s, and early 2000s. Lots of mistakes were made. Wrong sized lenticles, incorrect print resolutions, you name it. But it was still fun, I did manage to get one good image to line up. It is extremely tricky to get lenticular lens to align just right. LOL Thanks for sharing this.
It’s crazy how high the production value of these videos are, but how little your subs are. You have earned another subscriber
Thanks, that means a lot!!! 😄 really appreciate the sub!
Omg now we can have those cool sci fi business cards like in cod advanced warfare.
In the 1990s my parents had a camera that would take 3D pictures, the company that made the camera also developed the prints. It used this same technique.
My Man, you truly are a DIAMOND in TH-cam, you're so creative, passionate, entertaining and passionate about everything revolving around this TH-cam channel; I can't believe you have such small audience, for such great content. Best of wishes my man, truly in love with what you're doing.
Wow, I really appreciate the kind and supportive words!! That means so much to me and I’m so glad you’re enjoying the content 😊
This has to be the best thing I’ve seen in a few years!
Wow thank you so much!!! That made my day 😄
As an 80s kid, i subconsciously collect lenticular images, stickers,postcards and thought it was expensive to d.i.y., thabk you so much for sharing your project videos 🙏🏽
Oh yeah, very nice experience, good work sir! I tried that several years ago and the maximum number of images I've been able to combine was 5. To do that, I placed a simple object I centered on a turn table, and I used a high-resolution camera with a very narrow view angle (300 mm lens) I took a few pictures with a little rotation difference between them. Then I created a tram to digitally independently slice every image to use in strips; each has a number, from 001 to the number of each lenticular section, so because I had 5 images by every lens. I then put all which has the same number on a colon under the lense. My printer was able to print up to 1200 DPI BTW. The alignment of the print under the lenticular sheets was not an easy task. It was so time-consuming, I only did 3 images. In the industrial plans who does that in large quantity, I think they have special tools for the alignment. Anyway, to me it was a challenge I have no intention to repeat it lol. It was fun at the end, but very frustration to figure out how to do those. So, I have total respect for your experiments, I know from firsthand experience how difficult it is.
Kudos for seeing this through Sam! I myself bought Lenticular foil almost year ago, tried it with printed images few times, failed and gave up. You motivated me now to try harder and make it work. Thank you for that, man. P.S. where did you get calibration sheet? That looks really usefull.
That’s awesome that you gave it a shot, I was definitely close to giving up many times when it wasn’t working. But then once you get it it’s pretty magical! For the calibration sheet, I generated it using the software from 3Dependable.com. It’s a free trial where a pitch test is the only unlocked feature, although there were still some weird settings I had to play around with. I hope you’re able to try again and let me know if you have any other questions!!
@@sam-beige Thanks for the calibration sheet info. I am going to try it again.
Your so underrated dude remember me when your famous! It's unbelievable how you only have 4k ;).
Really appreciate it!! And will do 😊
Something I'd try is distorting the camera perspective to better match the shape the print would take up at that angle from a viewer's perspective, since the perspective warping present when rotating the prints is a bit distracting, and distorting it in a way that counters the distortion could help.
Yoooo I remember when you only had 800 subscribers you have grown so much congrats
Yeah it’s been crazy, thanks so much!!
Great work Sam ! well done . Admire your patience
I have no idea if the technology would even work, but a lenticular display that you could change the images behind it would be trippy.
Imagine some one walking by and just sees a picture of shrek with the eyes following them😂
Wow, so this was what you were planning to do next in 3D. This is actually a really cool use of lenticular photos! I did not know that much about them until now. Great job!
Thanks!! Haha yeah my computer was definitely struggling with some of the renders (especially the outro one).
But yeah I think lenticular photos are so cool, but I don’t feel like people utilize 3D software to get some of those effects very often
@@sam-beige Yeah I imagine it did haha! it seems like you really know your way around Blender with all the custom models you created. Yes, they can make awesome pictures and bookmarks. You are actually the first person I've seen make something like this in 3D!
I feel like I still have so much to learn lol, but I did the classic donut tutorial a couple years ago and then just random projects here and there ever since. But I think it’s so cool especially for being completely free!
That sounds awesome, a bookmark to go along with a specific book would be so cool! Haha should have talked to you about that before, would have been cool to include in the video!
@@sam-beige Same actually! I did his donut tutorial too a few years ago! Yeah Blender is quite the tool belt for a free program. Yes haha! If you figure out to make one for your secret compartment books or something else that would be really cool.
@@R.A.S.AnimationStudio Yeah definitely, that's a good idea! Some of my projects tie together in a weird way while being pretty random as well haha
These would be killer business cards
It would be cool to match the angle of rotation in the 3D render image, with the angle that you have to look at the picture in real life, so it would really seem more realistic
Do you have a method for making a stereoscopic version using just 2 images? I would love to make a poster sized version that can display left-eye and right-eye images from a comfortable distance. Seems doable but probably more complicated than I think haha
damn bro i just woke up thinking in this exactly idea!!! im a brazillian graphic designer (sorry for my english haha) that works with blender and graphic design. For me, this has a great potencial for brand value! Thank you for sharing your tests and methods
Man! You should sell those! Looks like a viable business idea. Respect for all the effort, good job
Wow! that was really mind blowing. I saw many Lectingullar images in touristic shops, but I ve never saw such a process before. You are a very genius scientist. Congratulations for your amazing discoveries! 👍👍👍 you have a new subscriber to your channel.
Already dude went to 2k and ive been doing for 2-3 months and i onky got 13 subs lol , keep being amazing sam!
Aw really appreciate it! Most of that growth was in the last month, so sometimes it just takes working at it for a while
@@sam-beige dont sweat it mate i enjoy your content and kinda try making my own
When time allows, I should be able to make some interlacing software, as I have a need for it too, and it would be a fun challenge. I just need to know what features are needed for it to be useful for lenticular applications.
Blender supports rendering interlaced stereoscopic images, but that's only for the L/R perspectives as far as I know. (I use that feature when modeling by sending the 3D view to my stereoscopic monitor while using the 2D monitor for the main Blender window)
I bet imagemagick could do it with a simple script. It excels at these kinds of tasks.
@@BrickcasterI'm pretty sure that's what I used when I was playing with the lenticular stuff a while back. You could generate a mask by tiling one white and one black pixel and merge the pictures by adding. That's about all I remember about it but there's enough info in the imagemagick docs to get it done.
That’s so cool! - i subbed instantly, and i’m sure you’ll skyrocket on youtube! Best of luck, and keep up the crafts videoes!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed!! Yeah the craft ones are really rewarding but definitely a lot of work!
Hey, this is pretty cool! You're vids are definitely very underrated
Shrek got that bombastic side eye 😂
Hi Sam, I would always avoid using the word 'holographic' when the technology is not holographic, but congrats on the results. 3D lenticulars are still (or again) very relevant! Interlacing may at first be a daunting task, but I managed to make it quite an easy task in Maxon's Cinema 4D. Now it only takes just a few, albeit intricate steps (that I devised myself) to interlace any number of images!
Forget larger sizes, there is a huge opportunity for 3d lenticular stickers
Congrats on 1k subs!! This was such a cool project and looks really good. Cant wait to see what you do next!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 😄
You can get the lens from an old laptop screen even if the screen is cracked that's just the LCD that screen cracked. That film is used to decrease and spread the light behind the LCD screen equally throughout the LCD. The only other difference could be the thickness that you're actually looking for.
I remember seeing someone who made like insane transitional animations with these and it was so cool
I need that last render as my desktop wallpaper!
This was the best demonstration of the possibilities of lenticular printing I've seen. Thanks for sharing!
I'm curious what software do you use for the interlacing step?
*Edit:* looks like you chose Grape 4.3 based on your screenshot at 2:24. Thanks!
Thank you so much!! Yeah I used Grape which worked out great! Are you planning on making some?
@@sam-beige Yes! I'm going to first try with frames from video where the camera revolves around the subject (since my 3D skills are non-existent). Calibration is the first challenge.
That sounds awesome! I'd love to check it out when you finish it if you post it anywhere! And yeah, the calibration was tricky to figure out, but let me know if you have any other questions :D
@@mckamey thank you for the information discussed, I'm trying to learn all I can first so that I could integrate a lenticular lense into another project of mine cause I believe it will add a beautiful layer of complexity to the result
Hi guys. Wow, this video really got me inspired! Do you guys have the methodology written somewhere so people can refer to? My questions are more like, what are the specs of the printer? Most importantly, how did you end up on that spec. What were the procedures of testing? And finally any recommendations of place to buy at a good cost?
Your video is really fun! When Shrek appeared, I was drinking water and ended up with water all over my desk haha! Thank you! Thanks to your video inspiration, I want to use Blender to create my own card. Your car card looks really cool. I really want to create one myself. I sent you an email and used GPT to help me with the translation. I hope you can feel my love for your video! I wish your channel more and more success!!🤩🤩🤩
Vendo esse video me veio a mente uma exposição de fotografias holograficas que fui conhecer aqui no Rio nos anos 90, até hoje fico impressionado com o que ví, fotos de objetos tão reais que a gente tinha até vontade de segurar de tão perfeito, como um revolver sobre a mesa, ou um microscópio e era tão real que a intenção de olhar no ocular era certa!!
Não entendo o porque a holografia não é mais explorada nos dias atuais, pois até hoje ainda não ví nada em termos de 3D que o superasse!
omg I'm making a fake window in my basement with a lightbox and THIS is exactly what I need to make a loop of a backyard-looking window :DDDD
That sounds like a really cool project!! Such a good idea!
yay! Challenge accepted. I just bought the largest& thinest light box I could find, a fake window frame, and some courtains. If you think is a cool content idea please use it :D
This is absolutely amazing! So cool! I have a question; Could you display the special image on a computer, and place the lens over the computer screen? Then could you have a semi 3d computer screen?
Thanks Nathan! That’s a good question, I believe it’s technically possible if the screen had the exact pixels per inch required for the lenticular lens. That would be pretty cool!
The Looking Glass displays work like this.
Blown away with the car one. That would be an excellent poster for the end of a hallway. Ideally a T intersecting hallway. If I find myself with a wall and as I described. I will 100% do that
UNDERRATED ASF! This was so cool to see, the car one I would actually want as a poster if I could, very unique idea which deserves more than it got.
Great video, I've subscribed. I love lenticular art, I don't really like flips but 3D images with depth is so interesting. I've tried to create some myself on my channel. This subject requires a lot of patience, I start some then give up but after a while I get excited and restart and the cycle repeats again 😂😂
Thank so much!! Yeah they are really tough to figure out but that’s so cool that you’ve made some, I just saw the Liverpool one you made!! Love the cards you make as well 😄
Thanks for the response and compliments. I am trying to achieve the effect you did with the car but it just doesn't work. I have given your video so many views 😂
OMG this is absolutely genius. I always wanted to make those harry potter cards ( the one with chocolate frogs) thank you for inspiring 💖
Excellent videos dude! Great quality, good pacing, and I really appreciate the short length! Subscribed immediately!
Thanks!!! Yeah I try to balance making them informative and entertaining, but still learning a lot 😄 Glad you enjoyed and really appreciate the sub!
This is amazing! Congrats on 1k! I was subbed to you when you had 30 subscribers!
Thanks! And that’s so cool that you were there at 30!! The growth has been so amazing, and thank you so much for the support ❤️
Thank you man! It helped me alot to create my new series of artworks
wow man, your content is so well edited and explained, insta-subscribed! 😁
Thank you so much, that means a lot!!
There is another method you might be interested in looking at for producing autostereoscopic images (of which lenticular stereo prints are but one type). I wish I could say it's less involved lol. It's called a parallax barrier. In principal it's similar to lenticular in that the intent is to have the left and right eye see separate images that simulate the different viewing angles/perspectives our eyes would be seeing if we were looking at the object or scene in real life. While lenticular lens sheets accomplish this by refracting or "steering" the separate images to our left and right eyes, a parallax barrier blocks one image or the other from being seen by either eye. Instead of the lenticular sheet, you have a transparency with many very thin, very closely packed vertical lines. If the transparency is thick enough there'll be some distance between the vertical lines and the lines of the image you overlay it on - the stereoscopic or other interlaced image is designed in pretty much the same way as for lenticular (with the same types of precision requirements of course). One disadvantage is that because the parallax barrier is actually blocking reflected light from the image beneath the image is much much darker. Typically, parralax barrier type images are displayed using a lightbox or similar backlit source (you can even experiment using a monitor as either a backlight with a solid white background OR perhaps more interestingly, to display the vertically self-illuminated interlaced image itself. The allows for displaying fully animated stereoscopic content etc. It's really challenging but super cool if you can pull it off. If you ever try and succeed it would make a great video wink wink nudge nudge. Cheers!
Stereoscopic is also what the 3DS uses
Nice work! I love lenticular blu-ray covers (especially for 3D movies) so this was special to see
Oh that's a very cool effect. I know it's possible to get "true" 3d effects with lenticular lenses if the viewing angle is close enough each eye ends up seeing a different image. I'm not sure if your images work out properly, but it's not impossible you're seeing actual depth on top of the illusion the motion gives.
Yeah I've heard that too! I don't think I achieved that effect with these regardless of the viewing distance, but that would be cool to have both the rotating effect with the "true" 3d effect!
Really cool. I felt like this stuff was peak quality as kid toys. I also weirdly enjoyed how it felt, like scratching the Batman dvd case lol. I wonder if it's possible to create some kind of looping cylinder, mechanical thing, unless any kind of slight bending totally ruins it. In that case, maybe more of a conveyor belt type of rig.
you can do this with strip masking layers in photoshop. this trick is first squishing the photo by the number of vectors -1 /1 cutting it projecting it to a mask layer this can be setup as a plugin for as many angles as you want the blur is a focus shift problem from the lens design but adding a black frame at the start and end with drastically reduce the blur.
i have a lenticular lens on a 8.7k 17in IPS display on a pi this only splits 1:4 and it use 1:2 to get a 3d effect
It would be cool to have an entire 3D wall like this. Though it would probably be super hard and expensive to make.
manly the software that is the expensive thing
That's really cool, love the deskscene you created. Have you tried filming something, like orbiting your face with a fast shutterspeed so there's no blur, and print that out? Could be cool too! yeaarss ago i worked on lenticular TV's. we would make content for a screen that had a similar lens on it, and we had to render out 9 different angles, and that way you could watch it basically on a 3D screen without using glasses. that could maybe be fun video too to do! that you put that big lens sheet you have on a screen and make an animated 3D video :)
Thanks Edwin! Yeah I'll have to try with photos sometime, lining everything up seemed like a big challenge :) And those TVs sound super cool, I think an animated version of this kinda thing would be really neat to see!
@@sam-beige 🤗 🤗
Bro, the Shrek and the car one in a poster would be just amazing!
Wow you already hit 1000 subs i remember when I was your 50th subscriber
Yeah it’s kinda crazy! Thank you so much for helping me make it happen 😄
I can’t be the only one who had a skateboard deck with that effect on. Makes Such a cool sound aswell
Finally god added depth of field to some textures that needed that
oh damn, imaging seeing 3d billboards haha
Haha that would be cool! I haven't seen billboards but I have seen street level signs that move as you walk by
You've basically made a static Looking Glass display! Those are essentially the same technique with a bunch of stacked display panels.
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Shrek would have been cool if he's not paying attention to you in the front, but as you walk by he's spying on you
This is one of the most amazing projects I’ve ever seen.
That's so nice of you to say!! :D
Nice!
So.. what resolution of the print do we need?
What lenses exist and what needed resolutions look like?
What about displays? What can we make?
Thanks! Kinda tough questions to answer since there’s so many variables 😬 I think there’s a ton of lens types, but I’d definitely like to play around with these more in the future when I have more resources or a better workshop!
Man....I'm starting to feel the side effects you feeling too after getting into 2D lenticular....lol! Maybe that's why not a lot of people are doing it. We need tutorials videos on lenticular larger size 8x10. Great Content!
Oh yeah, it can be quite the challenge! I’m starting to think I need to create a Discord server for the people wanting to make these, lol. Glad you’re enjoying the content!
Yeah that's the problem for me as well. I've tried to figure out how to make them at home for years but everything is outdated or not explained clearly and fully. I'm still waiting for a newer software for this to use so that it's not so discouraging to try.
@@kirakira878 I would use the expression " Go big or go home." I know there are these UV printer out there that can be purchase ; and can precisely printed on the lens. I would say order one of these at a high price if you want to go big. I wasted a lot of photo paper just to get one picture right.
@@chewysbucketlist6875 That's a pretty neat idea, but I don't know how the process works on this either, I've never used a uv printer yet. What UV printer brand is it? Or it doesn't matter? I'll see if I can invest in one.
@@sam-beigeI'd join.
Brilliant stuff.
Awesome and entertaining video! I love the ideas you come up with. Also congrats on 2K subs! You’re growing pretty quick 😉.
Glad you’re enjoying all the videos!! Yeah it’s kinda crazy haha, but I’m thrilled!
this could be the future of interior designa and architecture
For these type of videos why TH-cam should add a “❤️” button
I love the car and the desk i would have one of these. Its really artistic and you will Exhibit in an art gallery
Baš sam danas, gledajući u razglednicu iz Italije, ponovo razmišljao o ovoj "tehnologiji" i bez ikakve pretrage mi tvoj video izlazi u ponudi
Props for all the effort!
Thank you! This is still one of the longest projects I’ve worked on but I love these lenticulars!
This is the coolest thing I've ever saw
That's great! Have you thought about fly-eye lens sheets for both horizontal and vertical parallax motion? I've only seen a few old examples on youtube. Would love for that to be revived.
Yeah, those are really interesting! I'd love to try making something with that lens at some point, but it seems to have even less information on it than lenticular lenses lol
Thanks for this video!!
I was laughing like crazy at the existensial crisis part, subbed :)
The TH-cam algorithm is taking this video up. Anyway, this is also the first TH-cam video I witnessed when the creator said Subscribe, the subscribe button animated! That's neat. And it works, I am now subscribed. The related video from you look interesting so I'll probably check them out later too. GG
2:40 if your render is taking that long for a single frame, you need to check settings and do some tweaking.
That's pretty awesome man your amazing how do you not have at least 100I subs already
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Haha thanks, hopefully one day 🤞