What to do with old photos? Check what this man did using animation.

Check out his website Alexey Zakharov looks like he makes a living doing CGI videos and animations. I’m impressed.

As I was too! Fascinating!

Holy crap! How awesome was that steampunk photo album? I thoroughly enjoyed this. Than!ks

@TW

The link you posted unfortunately leads right back to this Q :)

That was a really amazing and thoroughly professional video.

I bet Ken Burns is just a tad envious. All he does is zoom in and out on old photos.

What this guy has done is unique and wonderful.

OKAY see if this works https://www.behance.net/seccovan. My bad !

That was a great animation. Wow!

The site where he got the photos, Shorpy, is wonderful, too.

Always be sure to click on “View full size”. You will be amazed at the detail in the photos.

For example:
Tashmoo Too: 1901

Thanks, I enjoyed every frame!

I collect antiques and it’s fantastic to see something appreciated and brought back to the attention of a modern day audience.
I, too, wish I could do that!

That would be SO FUN to know how to do that….and I have a glimmer of how from my videography experiences in the 80’s.

It combines animation of 3D models, including human bodies and machines, with perspective extrapolation and other effects. If someone can do that from photos, they also have the skills to make 3D animations from scratch. Lots of training, lots of work. There might be a fairly easy to use program somewhere that can try to do the perspective extrapolation, though. That could be interesting, though I am curious what distortion is involved, since there is no way to really see things that were not visible from the perspective of the original photo, so something tricky is being done – I think in order to get the illusion of a moving 3D perspective, they are sacrificing some of the actual data, one way or another. So if you really want to know what someplace looked like from a single photo, using one’s imagination while looking at the actual still photo is probably going to be more accurate, if less evocative.

Wow! Wish I could do that with my photos.

@Zaku
On a much simplier method, could one use stop action layered on a photo and taking films of ?
iwonder if that would work on original pictures?
Would like to know if it is possible for the novice to do?

stop action layered on a photo and taking films

Have you seen Terry Gilliam’s work, like on Monty Python?

Youtube – Terry Gilliam explains the secrets of the Monty Python animations