I assembled from a texture a bird's eye view of a cobblestone street. I then cut out an irregular opening in it making it look like it fell in. I found a great sepia image of an underground railway tunnel, and imported them all in AfterEffects, as well as my usual bulldog, green snake, green frogs and wax cat. Making things work in 3D was easy, but getting it to work as a 3D anaglyph was a little trickier... After fiddling with the position in space and the angle of the images, it began to look pretty good.
I added the image of a locomotive on the rails, a coupe of bats(one flying way above the street surface, the other way below in the underground tunnel, it got even better.
I am working sideways in After Effects, so to make it work, I had to create my own 3D stereo rig:
I added the image of a locomotive on the rails, a coupe of bats(one flying way above the street surface, the other way below in the underground tunnel, it got even better.
I am working sideways in After Effects, so to make it work, I had to create my own 3D stereo rig:
To create the 3D effect, the images of the various objects have to be at about a 30 degrees angle to the horizontal plane of the street, and have to be stretched anamorphically so the final view from the spectator standpoint is more or less correct. The projected images are distorted.
To test the 3D effect, I had to render the left and right eye image separately in After Effects, and then put them together as an Anaglyph in Photo Stereo Maker. To see it, you will need red/cyan anaglyph glasses, put your monitor flat on the table, and look at it at a roughly 30 degrees angle:
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