Paralumino Creative Studios
Los Angeles, CA
27 April 2008
Paralumino Announces “Dimensionalizing 2D Photos” tutorial by Ian Waters
Paralumino Creative Studios is proud to announce Ian Water’s “Dimensionalizing 2D Photographs” tutorial for the Electric Image Animation Studio. This instructional video elaborates Ian’s techniques for adding a third dimension to existing 2D photographs. Through a combination of 3D elements and camera mapping techniques, Ian completely transforms a static 2D photo plate into a moving 3D environment capable of handling a level of camera movement within the scene.
The tutorial covers a number of EIAS tools including:
Kmyst, Deformations, Reactive Shaders, Basic Character Animation, Function Curves, Smokers, Camera Mapping and Compositing.
13 videos include:
- Background Prep
- Smoke A (KMyst)
- Smoke B (KMyst & Deformations)
- Water Construction (Noise Factory and Reactive Shaders)
- Bird A (Character Setup)
- Bird B (Cycling Animation & Function Curves)
- Bird C (Animating in scene)
- Compositing
- Bonus 1 - Taper Deformations
- Bonus 2 - Smokers
- Bonus 3 - Camera Mapping (Using Ubershape to setup)
- Bonus 4 - Camera Mapping (Prepping Plates)
- Bonus 5 - Camera Mapping (Putting it together in AE)
Total Running Time: 100 minutes
Format: 960 x 540 (16:9 aspect ratio)
QT Video / H264 Compression
File Size: 246 mb
(Includes video files, read me, and model)
For more info please visit: www.paralumino.com