Odd Request: Does anyone know how to make something like this?

[Itsthefuzz]

In my German class, we're doing a project where we "Travel to Germany" and have to show different pictures and describe the trip and the costs involved. Me and my group love this video and think it'd be hilarious to do us going through Vienna Woods bobbing like Adrien Brody does in the video, but I can't find any guides on how to make it. I assume it would be fairly simple, so does anyone have an idea how one might go around making this?

 

[Private Custard]

I can think of one way of doing it in photoshop, using a transparency and around 12 separate copies of the image with the bobbing person moving along. You could then layer the 12 images over each background photo.

That would mean that you'd have 120 images to slot into your video editor for 10 different backgrounds. It's a seriously labour intensive operation! The smoother you want the bobbing motion to be, the longer it would take.

There must be a simpler way of doing it, such as creating layers and transparencies in the video software.

 

[Itsthefuzz]

I can think of one way of doing it in photoshop, using a transparency and around 12 separate copies of the image with the bobbing person moving along. You could then layer the 12 images over each background photo.

That would mean that you'd have 120 images to slot into your video editor for 10 different backgrounds. It's a seriously labour intensive operation! The smoother you want the bobbing motion to be, the longer it would take.

There must be a simpler way of doing it, such as creating layers and transparencies in the video software.

I think someone made a video similar to it using an apple program, sadly I don't own OSX or a Mac so that's out of the question I suppose. I'm not savvy when it comes to video/image programs but I was hoping someone else would know if there was a simple program to do it. If I have to use multiple layers in a photo editing program I will.

 

[Gennadios]

Hey, the music is like crack, and in the process of checking out some of the other quest- videos, I found instructions from one of the uploaders:

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@elpadilla86 sony vegas was the program used, and track motion for mostly everything

still image with the side to side motion, rendered and re-edited with an up to down animation, rendered again and re-edited for a loop of p-body moving across the screen, tossed on top of pictures

randomTVbox 6 days ago

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Was on the Portalquest video: http://youtu.be/022pdmjQ6AI

hope it helps.

 

[Private Custard]

I can think of one way of doing it in photoshop, using a transparency and around 12 separate copies of the image with the bobbing person moving along. You could then layer the 12 images over each background photo.

That would mean that you'd have 120 images to slot into your video editor for 10 different backgrounds. It's a seriously labour intensive operation! The smoother you want the bobbing motion to be, the longer it would take.

There must be a simpler way of doing it, such as creating layers and transparencies in the video software.

I think someone made a video similar to it using an apple program, sadly I don't own OSX or a Mac so that's out of the question I suppose. I'm not savvy when it comes to video/image programs but I was hoping someone else would know if there was a simple program to do it. If I have to use multiple layers in a photo editing program I will.

It wouldn't be many layers per image, just two. What it would be is lots and lots of two-layer images.

Think of it as a 2d version of stop-motion animation!

 

[Itsthefuzz]

Thanks for the help, I think we might even do just stop motion with cut outs of each other, allowing more movement as well. But I only really thought of that after some of these ideas. Thanks!