Create a 3D Scene from a Single Photo in After Effects | In-Depth PARALLAX Tutorial

In this video, I will be showing you how to bring a still photograph to life and turn it from a 2D flat image into a cool 3D scene,

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My name is Mohamed Mehrez, A passionate and creative-oriented video content creator from Tunisia, who from a young age, has been fascinated with video and pictures. Making videos is my ultimate way to translate my own ideas into visuals, Youtube is definitely my favorite platform when it comes to making travel films and VFX tutorials, I hope you guys enjoy my content :)
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⏲Tutorial Highlights:
Introduction(0:00)
Isolating Layers(0:48)
3D Scene Creation (14:02)
Train Animation (23:16)
Camera Animation(25:04)
Sunlight Effect(26:56)
Outro(28:40)

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My name is Mohamed Mehrez and I create videos about visual effects and filmmaking
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[MDMZ]

Seeing 10M views on any of my videos feels so UNREAL! Fun fact: I almost never uploaded this video, I remember creating it felt like a waste of time because of how much work was involved, and now it's literally changing the future of the entire channel. I hope you guys enjoy and find value in this tutorial. THANKS for watching! 😍🙏

[serzillhasan]

Detailing - 10/10
Voice - 10/10
Humbleness - 10/10
Simplicity - 10/10
Knowledge Sharing - 11/10

[ElectricFuture]

This would probably take me 20 hours. Sick work.

[ofginstrumentals]

I’ve never used Photoshop or After Effect, but I genuinely say through the full video completely amazed at the end product, this is awesome!

[Ignacy-ytmh]

TBH you just explain the topic so calmly that i didn't even notice when the time was flying by

[aspect_studio]

I would love to watch a short film in this style.

[paramiere]

There's a feature in Photoshop called "content aware fill" that comes in handy when removing things that are blocking!

[hexagonixon]

everybody: here for the knowledge
hungarians: it's our tram!

[m_som]

MDMZ: **puts skyscrapers in Budapest**
Me: “You and I remember Budapest very differently.”
(Great tutorial video btw, and being myself a Hungarian, a huge upvote for using Budapest picture :) ❤ )

[SouliMenah]

The train sound Fx, the blowing leaves, animated branches, sunflare and the SOFT edges of the layers with the overall scene vibration motion.. Are the things that gave life to your final work.. An infinite thank you for your tutorial sir !

[fourscoreand]

Ten years ago, I did a tour of European music festivals and Sziget was easily the best. Such a fine spirit. The finest I saw in Europe.

[Senayoshy]

I really cannot believe something like this is actually free... You're amazing. I don't have the funds to support you over on patreon, but I just wanna let you know I appreciate your work so much

[courtcrea.]

This tutorial was so ahead of it's time. Still pretty much applicable and looks better than most modern tutorials. ❤️

[alcinnovations]

This is art. It's not technology. It's art.

[sepe]

I just clicked on this, because that's a Hungarian tram! :D

[maziid]

i do not subscribed any YT channels last months or years but at this time my hand automatically did it because of the good stuff and humbleness of this guy, what a man, keep up the good work.

[blck]

I love this tutorial, it combines selecting, cleaning, reconstruction, camera work, animation all in one. This should definitely be a "must try" for beginners even if they don't want to make this specifically, but the amount of tricks and knowledge you can learn from this is really useful. Later on you can use all this information and make new correlations for new type of work. Thank you!!

[davidgamligo]

Took me a whole day to get something I liked. I’ve never used photoshop or after effects before so this was a struggle. Thanks for the run down

[rikorobinson]

I watched this video years ago and it shows how much Photoshop has improved, because all of the time consuming, painstaking stuff in this video can be done almost instantly in 2024. Glad I came back to this, because it's super easy to do now.

[SimplyAlteringMaterials]

Don't forget by adding the perspective of the shadow animation from the train according to the perspective of the object shadows on the ground or depending where the light source in the scene is coming from would also help in creating a realistic look to the scene as well. Nice video!!!