Time-Lapse Post Production

[Jonathan Fantucchio]

Forgive me if there is already a thread which answers this question. Is there a tutorial or does anyone have a workflow for creating a time lapse using a still image and said image's render elements. This would be using After Effects or any other composting program. I can't seem to find one and I have seen plenty of them done.

 

Thanks in advance.

[John Dollus]

you can do this from within Photoshop:

http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photoshop/2243/How-to-Make-an-Animated-Step-By-Step-Progress-of-Your-Artwork.html

[RyderSK]

I don't really think so if you mean within ArchViz.

 

I haven't seen anyone do it really good, but I presume with a bit of experimenting you should be able to get what you want with some combination of reflective pass overlayed with your footage masked somehow by normals pass to simulate fresnel ?

 

Can you link to some of those you've seen ? I am quite curious :- )

[Jonathan Fantucchio]

Juraj, I might have jumped the gun a bit and I apologize. I don't think I meant time-lapse and I again apologize. I think I was thinking more about ways of just adding animated elements to a still image, like a moving sky and some masked moving reflections on a still. A lot of times I do not have the time or budget to do an animation so I am looking for ways to add something to a still image, like a moving sky or something more.

 

I saw this video https://vimeo.com/90311728, and I think that some of these are stills(I may be wrong). I liked what was done and if these are stills(the moving sky and reflections were very cool), I would like to learn more after effects techniques that can help with post beyond just color grading/correcting. I'm guessing the reflective pass overlay is what would work.

 

Thanks!

[RyderSK]

No I understood you correctly, I know what you want :- ) I have thought of doing this myself, but little time.

You are also correct in calling those stills, Alex writes that in description of that video so too.

 

He also writes these links, but you propably checked them already:

 

*Trees footages: Gayarre Infografia (gayarre.net/store)

*Skies Timelapse: VizPeople (viz-people.com)

 

You might write him directly, or just play around with the reflection pass and the footage in AE, maybe it is more simple that it seems :- ) who knows.

[marius e]

I did one image where I had a still image and added lighting to it that went on and of as well as small fairy lights in the image changing colour with areas of light fading into other areas of lights on the floor. Was for a court in a mall exterior. Cant remember what I did, but was done in 'flash', there was a limit to the size of the image output afterwards as I remember.

[Nicolai Bongard]

Here is a direct link to the viz people tutorial: http://www.viz-people.com/portfolio/moving-stills/

[Smile of Fury]

(Edit...corrected links)

 

There are a lot of good tutorials out there about animating still images in After Effects by using parallax. This is a neat effect and really easy to do when you can render out different passes and easily select and isolate elements. Basically you separate the different image components in Z space, then animate a camera moving side to side or forward and back. Watch these tutorials, but realize we get to skip the most difficult part, which is cutting out the foreground elements and recreating enough background to look realistic.

 

Here's a real quick and dirty one:

 

And a much more involved one:

 

And another:

Edited May 14, 2014 by Smile of Fury

[Jonathan Fantucchio]

Thank's everyone.

Ben, I've seen these links but forgot about them. On one of my last jobs(film-making not rendering, I do more way film than vis), I attempted to use a sort of 2.5D technique as outlined here:

 

Due to the low res scans and age of my photos it did not turn out too well but it is a useful technique to have, but I did not use it ultimately due to the low quality.

https://vimeo.com/89067911

 

Nicolai, the vis people tutorial was what I was searching for but could not find, thanks.

 

 

Juraj, I did not check those links, but the tree footage packs are brilliant. They are a bit pricey but as soon as I can justify a purchase of them I will.

 

Ultimately this talk is redundant since components are getting cheaper every day, its just that rendering is such a tiny part of what I do I am always looking for ways to save as well as deliver a good image with my very limited cpu power.

[John Dollus]

sorry, I completely misunderstood. I thought you were trying to do a time lapse of working on an image for a portfolio or tutorial like this: