Moving Photographs (And no not video!)

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Came across this today - any ideas how it's been done?

Look carefully at each of the images and you'll see what I mean...

Moving Photos
 
They are just animated gifs, though some of them are particularly well done.

I have made a couple myself before, but nowhere near to the standard of those.


Tequila anyone?
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Yes I know about normal animated gif's - a bit like yours above :)

But do think these are particularly well done...

To keep a head in a vaguely similar position while rattling off a few images, to get the movement, whilst ensuring you get 'the shot' must be quite a challenge?
 
Just PSing in different images/slight movements and then saving as animated gifs...
 
You could do something like that in AfterEffects or Photoshop relatively simply using masks. It looks like a clever combination of still photograph and video footage.

I particularly like the one of the guy reading the newspaper. :)
 
They might be done by taking video and taking out various frames and masking, take the pouring shot, the rest of the image looks like a still frame, only the pour bit is animated.
 
arad85 said:
Just PSing in different images/slight movements and then saving as animated gifs...
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Agreed - but could someone 'stay in position' long enough to get 'the shot' and all the others to make the animation? Not sure it'd be so easy?
 
cymruchris said:
Agreed - but could someone 'stay in position' long enough to get 'the shot' and all the others to make the animation? Not sure it'd be so easy?
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Easy enough. Camera on tripod, take the shot, the subject(s) know to hold as still as possible to shoot a few seconds of video footage.

Then you just split up the video footage into multiple masked off layers, motion track & stabilise it, then position it where needed.
 
If I get time. :)
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
It isn't perfect....and no where near as easy as I thought it might be to capture and edit.
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It's gettin' there though. Personally, I wouldn't have bothered animating the bush on the far right though. I think it's just a little too much.

If I cover that with my hand and just see the central one moving, it makes it much stronger, imo. :)

But yeah, a good start. How did you capture the movement? just high speed continuous shooting mode? or did you actually shoot a video sequence?
 
Those gifs in that blog are really good...

maybe its time to learn a bit here and there
 
GIFs usually annoy the heck out of me because they get posted on internet forums and crash my browser (and no I'm not using an old or inadequate browser or computer) but those posted by the OP are pretty good.

I'd imagine there'd be no need for anyone or anything to hold still, it's similar to colour popping where just one part of the frame is edited, in this case rather than edited to a different colour, it's edited to change the position slightly.

To those who have made GIFs before, what software have you used?

Edit: nevermind, just found how to do it in PS.

I presume that if I shoot at 8fps then make each frame last 1/8 of a second or as close to that as possible that will give me the most natural looking movement?
 
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