PROJECT #3: "Bringing Images to Life"

Due: Sep 29, 2011 (Week 5)

Description:

Select a photograph or illustration with a clearly defined foreground, middle and background. For best results use images that don't show the "base" of any of your planes touching the ground (ideally, the foreground objects/people would have the bottom area outside of the frame, the middle bottom would be blocked by the foreground and the background bottom blocked by the middle).  Cut up this image into 3d layers, painting out redundant elements (paint out the foreground elements out of the middle and background, etc).

Import the assets you created in photoshop into AE and space them out in the z axis while preserving their visual relationship to one another (space foreground, middle and background at least 2000 pixels apart but use the scale attribute to increase the size of the middle and background elements until they look as large as they did in the original, flat image).

Create a 15 - 20 second animation of the composition you set up using a 3d camera. Add lights, shadows and play with the camera's depth of field.