There has been a handful of 3D digital cameras on the market in recent years, though all seem to have been withdrawn now. Frames from movie clips can be extracted relatively easily.įor true stereoscopic 3D you need a camera system that takes pairs of images from different viewpoints. Morphing (the changing of one shape into another) is more complex: there are dedicated programs, or the effects are included in some animation programs such as Cinema 3D or Adobe After Effects. This will also work for more complex animations, though a more specialist program such as Adobe Flash might be useful for the initial stages. Simple image-changing flips (say a winking eye) can be set up relatively easily in a multi-layer imaging program, most usually Adobe Photoshop. However, the skills can be learned and taught and the basic software may already be to hand.
It may be easiest to go to an outside specialist who’s set up to offer trade services for part or all of the process. In part two, we explore the software needed to create this dynamic images. In part one of this feature, we introduced lenticular printing, its effects, applications and opportunities. Setting up images for lenticular print takes knowledge, experience and sometimes (but not always) expensive software.