Photo Animator Download After Effects Templates-Free
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Do you have awesome photos and want to make them even more epic? Do you want to implement your pictures into a video and animate them with cool effects? Do you want to spice up a video from a wedding, a kids birthday party or animate that one good photo of somebody in a totally original Joker Halloween costume?
As many of us often do, we get into the situation where we want to use still pictures in a moving video. Be it for a documentary, an image film, a promotional clip for a business event or whatever inspiring thing you are doing. The most basic way of achieving this is to simply zoom into the photo or pan over it. But maybe having a slideshow or “Powerpoint presentation” effect is not enough for you. You want a more professional approach to give your photos more “life” and you begin to draw masks and animate single parts of the photo to give the illusion of some camera movement. This can be very time consuming. So I started to build a tool which helps me do this and cuts the time doing so tremendously. I have been using and improving it for over three years now and it has already saved me so much time. It is powerful and adjustable enough to have been useful for advertising agencies and big marketing campaigns and accessible enough to be manageable by the amateur photographer, who wants to animate the christmas pictures of his family.
This is what you can do:
Define a mask (often a simple & quick rough mask will work perfectly)
8 layers will be generated from this mask
Set the layer size
You can pull the layers in two different ways at the same time: 1) The weighting is more defined at the outside layers 2) The weighting is more defined on the inside layers
Push camera or object in & out
Pull focus (between innermost and outermost layer)
Activate “Visual Help Mode” to make adjustments easily visible
Activate “Magic Layer Connection” to connect layers so there is a minimum of artifacts (only with extreme movements artifacts will become visible)
A variety of resolution presets for all purposes. FullHD, 4K/UHD and all standard formats for Instagram
Single animation length: up to 20 seconds
Brand New Feature “Light Rays”:
Set the origin point of the light source
Parent the light source to your background layer
Adjust the color
Define the size of the light source
Manipulate the intensity and fall off of the light
Huge Upgrade to Objects functionality:
Turn Objects and Plates into 3D objects
Depth maps can be made in Photoshop or automatically created
Exclusive Objects Library:
Over 30 detailed isolated objects included
birds
branches
fireworks
trees
plants
smoke
rain
and many more
Place objects within a scenery:
Mask an Object in the picture and get control over it
Add plates at any layer and get control over it as well
Move Object/plate
Move with weighting on inner parts of objects/plates to give impression of turning the object/plate
Turn all Objects simultaneously with one global turn picker
Add wind and waves to your composition:
Draw two masks for wind area and wave area
Set horizon, wave base and camera angle to blend wave area with photo
Specify count, speed and height of waves
Define size, amount and speed of wind turbulence
Dust Particle System, Text-Placeholder, Advanced functions:
Create dust particles and edit their size, amount, shape, color, speed and depth
Place your Text or Logo in the Animation and decide for depth in picture (will be affected by camera blur and movement)
Advanced masking: You can now add masks to every layer individually. This means you can draw masks and decide what parts of the photo belong to which layers.
Advanced Layer Rig: The Photo Animator contains a very advanced Layer Rig. As you can read above, you can shift focus, move layers with different weighting, move into the photo and more. Even though you don’t need plates to get good results, you sometimes want or have to use them. So now you can use this advanced layer rig for your own plates. This makes animating your plates super simple.
Start Script to easily apply Animation Presets:
Choose from 13 different moves
All moves loopable
Reverse the Movement
Decide on the intensity and focus-shift
Adjust the length of animation
Set Ease-in or Ease-out
Added waves move automatically at the right speed for perfect loops
Click “create Animation” and you’re ready to render
Please keep in mind that this is not a “magical wizard tool” but a great aid for professionals and hobbyists alike. There will be some kinds of photos which will work better then others. Especially photos with many objects in the foreground and background, like a gallery opening for example, are more difficult. Also flat photos without depth, like an object right in front of a wall, don’t give much of a 3D effect. But for most of the photos I have tried it on, it works great.
If you have any wishes or ideas that you want me to implement, don’t hesitate to write me! I’m always happy to get some input and feedback. Your thoughts and comments will help me improve the tool!
What you get:
Photo Animator V6 After Effects CS4 project file (Will work with Adobe After Effects CS4 and higher, no plug-ins needed)
Photo Animator V6 Script-file
over 120 minutes of video Tutorial (some with project files)
PDF document with the controls explained (6 Pages)
Over 30 detailed isolated objects
No music included. The epic music from the promo trailer is available here.
New Tools License
Click here to get to the tools license version.
The licenses used for items on videohive are created and governed by Envato. You can see them on the top right corner of each item. Many customers and also many authors don’t know that the licenses are bound to a specific category. In the After Effects Category you will find the regular and the extended license. In the very little known Add-Ons category you will also find After Effects files and add ons but here they come with a Tools-license. A license allowing the customer to create unlimited end products. When I first uploaded my Photo Animator I did not know about this category and license. I tried to have my Photo Animator moved to the Add-Ons category, but unfortunately this is not possible without losing all item history. Especially old customers would not be able to download updates. So I decided to upload the Photo Animator in the Add-Ons category as well, so that the Photo Animator is available with the tools license as well. It has a slight price difference to make it justifiable.
What does this mean for old customers, who bought the regular or extended license? Probably nothing. You can download the update in your download section like always. Me, personally, I don’t mind how many times you use my Photo Animator. It was always meant to be used unlimited times. But in the end I cannot promise a license only envato can grant.
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Last Update 22 March 19
Created 29 September 15
After Effects Version CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2016, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4
Files Included After Effects Project Files
Universal Expressions Yes
Resolution 3840x2160
File Size 1.5GB
Media Placeholders 1
Text Placeholders 1
Tags 3d, animation, camera, layers, mask, moving, parallax, particles, perspective, photo, picture, video, warp, waves, wind
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