Amazing Videos and Pictures

Hampus Andersson · Dec 4, 2012

If you find a video you find is either amazing, awesome, sublime, incredible, mega, wow, godlike then post it here

This video is done by taking still photographs (just one for each scene), put it into Photoshop and then they have animated it some.

They took that one and made it look like it was slow motion footage!

It may be hard to believe, but all the amazing slow-motion clips you see in the video above were created using individual still photographs. Joe Fellows of London-based film production company Make Productions gathered photographs of wildlife and people from the WWF archives, and then Photoshopped and animated the images using parallax.

Fellows says the technique was done by using Photoshop to extract specific portions of each photograph, which are then animated using Adobe After Effects. Since the final result is intended to look like slow motion, there didn’t need to be too much movement (making the project a bit easier).
There was no 3D mapping used — everything was done with layers. Small sections of each animal were extracted and placed in their own layers (e.g. the ears, teeth, whiskers, head, body) on top of the background layer containing the original photo, which had to be cloned over in all the missing areas.
The layers are then “parented to one another” and moved either in their position or by using the Puppet Tool in After Effects
It’s a pretty neat trick for bringing single images to life.

Read more at http://www.petapixel.com/2012/11/29/stunning-slow-motion-shots-created-using-only-still-photos-of-wildlife/#QwJ0hSEIFqYOwuzQ.99

PICTURES ARE OK AS WELL.

Hampus Andersson · Dec 4, 2012

Another cool video, it´s basically algi(?) that when it gets disturbed it will start to create light.

From Bondi Beach,

Hampus Andersson · Dec 4, 2012

Amazing that these people even survived this one....change of underwear for everyone i would assume.

Hampus Andersson · Dec 6, 2012

Awesome video, just listen to what he says.

Hiroshi Awazu · Dec 8, 2012

Kudos to the pilot that landed this airliner on the Hudson River without it tumbling after it hit the water

Hampus Andersson · Dec 9, 2012

Gold fever anyone?

Aleksandr Bukarev · Dec 11, 2012

Could be a good opponent in racing =))

Hampus Andersson · Dec 11, 2012

now that is awesome

Jordi Casademunt · Dec 11, 2012

That dog drives better than 90% of people.

Shane Butler · Dec 12, 2012

Even if you're not into snooker or any sport for that matter, you still got to admire the skill here.. absolutely amazing.

Hampus Andersson · Dec 12, 2012

I assume you have heard of "The Magician" Efrain Reyes?

Reyes, along with the other "Filipino invasion" players revolutionized the way pool is played by their introduction to the sport of pinpoint precision kicking (going into a rail with the cue ball and then hitting an object ball). Reyes' ability to "kick safe" and to kick balls into intended pockets is legendary. This ability, coupled with his superb skill at other aspects of the game, led U.S. professionals to give him the appellation "The Magician." Before Reyes and his compatriots came over to the U.S., no one there had seen anything like their kicking skill set.
"The first time I came over to the states, I used an alias of Cesar Morales. Pool players in the US already knew Efren Reyes as a great shooter from the Philippines, but they hadn't...seen...me...in person." — Efren Reyes

Hampus Andersson · Dec 13, 2012

Posting this again, made a thread about it but no replies, bit sad really as i don´t think many really understood the depth in the message.

Hiroshi Awazu · Dec 13, 2012

changmiflora · Dec 13, 2012

Who knows the mmorpg ArcheBlade? My brother plays this game all the time. I don’t know why he likes it so much. But this game is a bit cool for fantasy game lovers.