Kookaburra – Subtile Environmental Movement Demo
- August 14th, 2011
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This is a very short animation using 3d depth and camera panning in Apple Motion. I noticed this effect being used in some documentaries and advertising and created this animation as a demo for our students learning motion graphic design. The photo is of a Kookaburra I shot with a zoom lens some time ago, this has be bird has been carefully isolated and prepared with a new background on seperate layers for animation in motion. The layers are separated by z depth with the Kookaburah being closer to the camera in 3D space. Some subtile camera behaviours produce and effect than cannot be achieved via a single static image and is often used to get maximum milage from a photograph.

Aha, I have done a few of these in my time, rotating the etched element on it’s Z axis looks cool too. Alien Skin’s Image Doctor’s ‘Smart Fill’ plugin can fill the empty space with varying degrees of success
Amazing photo again btw.
Cheers Beau, I have had some alien skin software in the past that was quite good, will check that one out!