Izzy Video 116 – Two and a Half Dimensions
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Still photos can be powerful additions to your video, and adding movement to the photos can take them to the next level. Today’s episode shows you how to take the movement even further, by using an effect called 2.5D (two-and-a-half dimensions). In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to create the effect using a combination of Photoshop and Motion, but you could just as easily do it in Photoshop and After Effects, or even other software combinations.
The effect is difficult to describe. It’s subtle, and the best way to understand 2.5D is just to see it in action.
You can watch the video here.
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January 7th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Thanks! This is a really cool idea!
January 9th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Thank you, an incredible screencast!
January 9th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Happy New Year! This is another great episode, I really like the way you break things down and make it simple to follow. I’ve seen effect around and always wondered how its done.
Best wishes for the new year.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Brilliant, I have always wondered how to get an effect like 2.5D.
I don’t have Motion, but by watching how you did it, I tried using Adobe Photoshop elements and Adobe Premier elements, and managed to get a similar effect. I was very happy with the results. I will be using this in future
How about that special in shooting weddings
Thanks Izzy
March 7th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Hi Izzy,
I enjoyed so much this episode. I know a very little about Motion but with your tutorial was very easy to me to create a video with this effect. Brilliant!
Motion is a wonderfull software. I wonder if you could deliver more episodes using Motion. I would be great. A proposal: maybe you could explain to us how you did your the introduccion of your videos with the animation of your logo.
Thank you so much for your work.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Sebastian – Thanks for the kind words. 2.5D is a fun effect, and it’s not too difficult to pull off.
I’m planning on doing more Motion tutorials in the future, but I also have to say that I didn’t create the intro videos for my tutorials. I hired Final Echo to do it. If you want to learn about them, please visit finalecho.elance.com.
Thanks for watching!
March 25th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Great video, i did this one two days ago using 4 pictures, a particle emitter that looks like snow, and a particle emitter that looks like smoke. i plan to do a ten minute short film with this technique and adding video of either myself or other actors in by using a green screen, kind of like the sin city effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPcVSDV4XTs
March 26th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Nice work i love your videos
March 27th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Scott,
You really did a nice job with that video. Thanks for the link!
Once you finish the short film, please come back and post a link to it, so we can all see it. I’d also like to encourage you to share this test in the community forum at people.izzyvideo.com.
May 20th, 2009 at 9:36 am
is the motion is in the photoshop program or separate program. I alway wonder how 2.5 d work. Thank you very much for tips.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:36 pm
This reminds me of the Law & Order intro. Very cool idea. I had not used Motion before–thanks for the intro!