Hey guys Flat Pack FX here and
today I'm going to show you how to take
your still images and make them look 3d.
so stick around you're watching
Flat Pack FX. So welcome back to another
tutorial guys and in this one I'm going
to show you how to make this effect
where we take a still image and make it
look 3d now this effect you can apply to
any still image you have and I'm also
going to show you how to do it entirely
inside of After Effects now there are
tutorials out there would show you in
part how to use Photoshop but I just
thought it'd be easier if we use After
Effects right through the process now in
this case I went online and found these
free images and I've put links in the
description below if you want to follow
along with me okay so I'm gonna right
click and create a new composition you
can call this one whatever you want I'm
also going to change this to be HD 1080
25 and then hit OK next I'm going to
take my image and drop it straight into
the composition then I'm just gonna
simply just resize this so it roughly
fits in our composition now the first
thing we have to do is separate our
image into different layers so the way
we do this is we're firstly going to
duplicate this layer down here and turn
off the bottom one and I'm gonna cut out
this guy here I'm gonna use my pen tool
and just draw a really rough mask around
him like that then I'm just gonna come
up to effect down to keying and I'm
gonna add the extract I'm just gonna
drag down on this white point in order
to remove the background like that then
just gonna rename this one to be gone
that one off turn on my background layer
then I want to select one of these
cliffs down here so I'm gonna cut this
element out here so I'm gonna go back to
my pen tool and I just want to start
drawing a mask around the outside of my
layer here now if you're new to masking
I will be doing a masking video soon but
in the meantime the key with this is
just to keep making small little changes
so if I click I create a point if I
click and drag I can create a curve to
my layer to use that to get around
corners and follow the contours of your
shape more so using
my spacebar to move around with my hand
tool and then we've created our first
shape here I'm also going to rename this
one to left cliff and I'm going to
duplicate this turn off the background
layer again I'm just gonna delete the
mask on that layer then I'm gonna go
over here and start on this cliff rename
this one to cliff so it's easy to follow
also just gonna grab my pen tool here
and just start drawing a rough mask
around my edge now this really doesn't
have to be perfect because the effect
happens quite quickly we don't really
notice all the imperfections so it's
just a matter of trying to get it as
close as you can and obviously the more
time you spend on it the better it's
gonna look okay so now we've got our
three elements they're gonna take my
bottom layer here I'm gonna duplicate it
again gonna rename this one to
background so BG then I'm gonna delete
the mask on that layer so we've got all
of our layers separated now in two
distinctive elements the next part of
this is I'm gonna turn off these top
layers we want to remove on our
background layer these top layers so
these two cliffs and we want to remove
this person from our scene now this is
where it can become a bit tricky
depending on how complicated your photo
is and the way we do it is by using what
we call the clone stamp so Photoshop has
a clone stamp that you can use otherwise
there is one built into After Effects
and we find it by coming up here to the
tools panel and clicking on the clone
stamp then we have to double click our
layout so we enter into the layer menu
now the other thing you need to make
sure is under window there brushes and
paint are both selected and that's these
two menus here the bottom one paint just
make sure that these settings match
mainly these two up here both of a
hundred percent and the brushes what we
want to do here is we're going to change
the diameter and we can also change this
hardness setting of how soft we need it
to be so I'm gonna scale this diameter
up and I'm simply gonna hold alt or
option on my keyboard to bring up this
little icon and this is basically the
point at which we want to copy our layer
from
and paste it too so if I hold this down
I'm going to select part of the part
that I want to actually copy so this
part here and then I'm going to bring my
cursor over to where actually want to
copy this to and I'm just going to click
and you can see that it's taken this
part here and copied it over to this
part if I continue to click through it's
continuing to move back at that same
angle and you can see that if I now move
over here I can take a section from here
and repeat that process so you can see
I've remove that top part now the key
with this is to keep moving the section
of where you keep taking that part from
now this does take a little time just to
slowly work your way through but if you
make a mistake just use your ctrl Z to
go back
now I'm also using my spice ba here to
switched between my hand tool to move
around my image and we basically just
keep repeating this process
now they are the good thing about this
for these clips you don't have to
completely remove them we only have to
remove around the edges because we're
not going to see the entire thing behind
so it's just a matter of slowly working
through this so you start to get
something you're happy with now the best
advice I can give you is to keep
changing the point where you copy the
image from and to also mess around with
the brush settings to get the best
results now don't be afraid to change
things up and remove things out of the
image because people won't know what the
original image actually looked like you
can even completely remove the
background and just add a whole new
background in if you didn't want to go
through this process now once you're
happy with that we're going to come back
to our main composition here and the
last part of this is now we should have
all of our layers separated we need to
actually go through and add a 3d camera
I'm gonna make all of these layers 3d
and then I want to create a new camera
and I can just set this to be 28
millimeters and hit OK and then we want
to click on this button here and change
this to be two views horizontal that's
going to bring up these two windows here
now what we need to do is we need to
select our different layers and separate
them out into the 3d space so most
distant image is going to be our
background obviously I'm gonna select
that layer and shift it into the
distance here I'm also going to hit ass
on the keyboard and just scale this up
just so fills the back of our frame
again then I'm gonna grab our left cliff
here and I'm gonna move that closer to
camera and I'm also gonna scale this one
down this time just so fills the edge of
our screen I'm gonna leave the person
image where they are and I'm also going
to grab this right cliff just move this
one back slightly and then scale this up
next I'm just going to come back to my
one view here and what you can do is
come down to the transform under the
camera options click a stopwatch for
point of interest and a stopwatch for
position then go across to roughly three
seconds bring the end of your
composition in by hitting n on the
keyboard create another two key frames
then I'm gonna go to my camera tool and
I'm simply just gonna move this around
and you can see this effect already
starting to work I'm gonna go back to my
original keyframes and go the opposite
direction what I'm also going to do here
is on the last keyframes I'm going to go
to the track Z camera and shift in and
you can see a bit of the backgrounds
coming through there so I'm just gonna
scale this up slightly just to hide that
small gap and you can see if I play
through that it actually looks pretty
good there's only one part here and that
is this cliff here is just sticking
through so I'm just going to shift this
back just so we can hide that slightly
and the other thing you can do is we can
add a bit of a depth of field so if I
come down to the camera options I can
turn on depth of field I'm gonna drag
this aperture up to around there and
then I can shifter the focal distance
just so my person and this rock are in
focus and when we play through that this
is what you have now so that looks much
better than what we had before there is
a bit more touching up work that I could
do on the backgrounds to tidy that up
but overall that looks pretty good now
there's one more element I can add to
this and that's to actually add a little
bit of movement into my scene by
automating things within my scene it's a
really quick way to do this is select is
to select the thing you want to move
come up to the puppet pin tool and I'm
just going to draw some pins on my
character here
and if I just shift across now on the
timeline to the end of my timeline and
select my character again can then
select my puppet tool and simply just
drag some of these points around and
that's just going to add a little bit of
movement to our scene so that's how we
actually create this effect now also
applied this same principle to this
image here of these fighter planes and I
separated out the layers from my
background and then I add a little bit
of depth of field and a bit of movement
on my planes and this is the effect we
get so there you go guys I hope you've
learned something in this tutorial
thanks very much for watching and
remember flat pack effects is the flat
pack anyone can build
