Those sky adverts...

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You know the ones, it's a 2d image that has been split in to layers and then made to look 3D.

Here's a similar one but more advanced, it'd done with video stills, then recompiled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A283ThlHPjU

I researched this about a year ago, there's a name to the technique. You see it used a lot with older photos where you feel like you are moving through or around a still photo. Problem is, I can't remember the name of the technique used and I need it to find the Blender tutorial I found :(

Googleing "Moving images" just brings up things like animated gif's. My google-fu is failing tonight, anyone know what I am talking about care to put me out of my misery?

EDIT: and it's not cinemagraphs, they are just animated photos, there's no movements through the photo, no 3d effect.
 
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multi plane isn't it either, and all the adobe stuff calls it 2.5D :( It's a long word and it isn't clear what it is.

There was an video knocking about a couple of years ago that used the effect very well, there was 1 photo in it that was old sepia-ish in color, had an old car by a gas pump and you moved through the photo. I know it had the name on there for the effect but I can't find that either :(
 
The Victorian invention, which was a 2-lens arrangement, was the stereoscope. I have one somewhere around here, with a few hundred stereoscopic photos. The effect is quite interesting in that the figures in the image look like cardboard cut-outs rather than 3D representations, even though they should appear 3D.

Do you mean a modern version of that effect?
 
Parallax scrolling?

EDIT, thats computer graphics technique not photography.

I think its a mix of ken burns and parallax
 
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Is it camera mapping?

This would be a 3DS Max style 'effect' or process

Basically take an image and creating some basic 3d models based on that image. Eg., a building. You then set the camera in the software program to sort of cover the 3d model in the photo and if done right you can then have some rotation of that object which now looks 3D.

Google camera mapping into Google and look at various tutorials. This could be it. I've seen some effects of WW2 pictures brought to life like this with the allusion of 3D depth. So I've always thought this process was used for the Sky adverts.
 
I watched a tutorial on this a few years back using After Effects.

I've seen a fellow tog on here demonstrate something similar with a bride and groom.

Let me see if I can find the video....
 
The video above was made by me but even Im not sure what the effect is called and to my knowledge there is no fast plug in for either after effects or prem pro that will help you. The original photograph is cut into layers in photoshop and the background is filled in, use content aware if you have cs5 and above.

The ps layers are then imported into after effects and a virtual camera is added and the moved around and even through the layers.

Here is a better example of mine which involves extreme sports. This film was around 60hrs of work in all.

https://vimeo.com/17491087
 
Actually, a similar kind off effect was seen in Google Earth when they had the lines denoting roads superimposed on the photo in "street level" mode. Because the line moved slightly differently (in an out of sync kind of way) to the background photo when the image was panned around, it gave it that strange kind of "fake" 3D effect.
 
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Is it camera mapping?

This would be a 3DS Max style 'effect' or process

Basically take an image and creating some basic 3d models based on that image. Eg., a building. You then set the camera in the software program to sort of cover the 3d model in the photo and if done right you can then have some rotation of that object which now looks 3D.

Google camera mapping into Google and look at various tutorials. This could be it. I've seen some effects of WW2 pictures brought to life like this with the allusion of 3D depth. So I've always thought this process was used for the Sky adverts.
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Thanks, this is it. It defo has another name but using "camera mapping" found the video that I was looking for as well :D

http://vimeo.com/25392699
 
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