Animation Of Historical Figure Portrait Photographs

[logan]

This is already likely to be known about, but there is a facility available that allows you to ‘bring to life’ portrait photographs of historical figures, who were likely never seen on any film footage in their time, just static photography.

I used the facility to animate the officer I study Col. A.W. Durnford and was really impressed with the results, it really did give the impression he was captured on a few seconds of film. This made him more real almost bridging the gap of time between himself and the present.

I must add, only use portraits that have the person facing forward towards the camera, as angled shots don’t animate well.

[tubman13]

It's been done with numerous members of the 7th and if I recall Libby as well.

Regards,
Tom

[logan]

It’s been ages since a good documentary was made about my subject, but I did put the suggestion forward on forums, this would be a great inclusion, instead of just inserting the usual static portraits of the participants, at least the officers, as I don’t think this has been attempted previously