Welcome back! In this episode of Motion Magic we're going
to look at forced projection onto photograph. Shoutout to Simon for the inspiration for
this episode. I'm going to take this photograph here and
drop it in a project. Hold down shift and option and scale it up
so it fills the frame. And then I'm going to add a Camera and Switch
to 3D. If I orbit the camera, we can see we have
a simple flat photograph in 3D space. I'm going to make two clones of this by pressing
the K key. Select it and press K. Then I'm going to right click and select the
Crop tool for this first clone layer. Hold down space bar+command and zoom out a
little bit. And I'm going to crop this one down to just this
section of the boardwalk right there. Then I'll select the upper clone layer and
crop it up to everything but the boardwalk. So if I now turn off the bottom layer, which
is just a reference, we now have two sections: there's the bottom and there's the top. If I orbit the camera, nothing is changed. I'll double click to reset the camera. Now I'm going to select the bottom with the
boardwalk, right click and select the Anchor Point tool and move the Anchor Point down
to the bottom of my frame, right about there. Press "Q" for the Adjust 3D Transform tool,
hold the shift key down, and drag down on this X axis rotation handle to rotate this
down exactly 90 degrees. If I now deselect it and orbit the camera,
we can see it's laying flat like a floor. I'll double click to reset the camera. Now I'll select the same lower layer, shift
Z to fit everything to the window, then drag up to scale it all the way up to touch back
to the original top of the photograph. If I now orbit the camera, we can see we have
two separate layers. I'll deselect everything, so that we can orbit
around the center point and you can see we now have two separate layers, one is a floor
stretched out. I'll double click to reset the camera. Now what I'll do is right click and choose
the Distort tool. What I want to do is map this back to the
original dimensions. Hold the shift key down so I'm only dragging
directly left and move that over and also move the right one over. I'm adding the shift key after I start to
drag. Then I'll hold down command+space bar and
drag to move out a little bit and move these over as well, again using the shift key. Now you could be more exact in the inspector
but I'm doing this in under 5 minutes. Shift Z to fit it to the window, deselect
everything. If I turn those off, there is our original,
and here's our new one so we have our original photograph back but if I orbit the camera,
we actually have them separated in space and we have a floor. Finally, I'm going to take this top one, right
click, choose the Anchor point tool, set the Anchor Point at it's base, press Q for the
Adjust 3D Transform tool and now I want to move it back in space, so I'm going to go
to the right view using the compass, deselect everything and press F to frame the entire
scene, select this top layer, and move it back to the very back of our floor. Then I'll press F to frame it, zoom out a
little bit, and move it down, and position it right at the base of our floor. Then I'll go back to our active camera and
then in the inspector, for the scale, I'll scale this up and it will scale from it's
anchor point back to match again. And once again we have our original image,
however, if I now orbit the camera, we basically have a box, a little scene here. I'll double click to reset that. So, if I dolly the camera, we can create a
little camera move and it actually looks like we're in a 3D scene here. I'll double click to reset that. So with the camera selected, from the behaviors
short cut menu, I'll select Basic Motion: Move. Move forward about three seconds. O for an out point and I'll move down a little
bit and I'll move in. I'll also turn off my 3D grid. And very quickly I've created a force projection
look on a simple photograph. In our new Warp Speed Motion 3D tutorial,
we take this a step further, by adding 3D text to the scene, incorporating shadows with
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