Oct 4, 2014

Great short animation made entirely from still images.

Adding movement to photographs is now a very common technique, but Benny Merwin's "The Putin Depardieu Love Story" takes the technique a step further, creating a fantastic, eerie and funny animation:

Merwin, who spent five months making this film, explains the process in the comments of his YouTube video: [3 Melwin explains the process in the comments of the YouTube video:

It was all done in CS4 with no additional plug-ins: ...... To create the illusion of perspective, the layers were deformed using a variety of tools. The arms are usually just paired to the body. If you need to create a larger distortion, you can always track the layer with another composition (just add colored dots and remove them) and add the arms, head, or whatever you need to place.

He also created a video that gives more tips on how he animated this film: