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3d camera mapping scenes from the documentary MOTALKO. hb-production.com/motalko3D
The whole process (modelling, texturing, compositing) was done with Blender 2.49.
created by: Miklós Falvay
layout artist: Domonkos Pinke

MOTALKO is a documentary about the first Hungarian petrol station.
Directed by Attila Kekesi
Produced by Miklos Havas
  • Rodrigo Silva 7 months ago
    WOW! Absolutely lovely! Congratulations!
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Thanks Rodrigo!
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  • Dale Beach 7 months ago
    This is wonderful. I would love to see more.
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Thanks Dale!

    I'm working on an opening sequence of a new documentary with this technique. But this time I can work with much better pictures, because the film is about the great photographer Robert Capa. I will share the finished result soon!
  • Andrea Di Nardo plus 5 months ago
    nice camera projection animation! yeah, I'm looking forward to see the new stuff!
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  • estúdio|gunga 7 months ago
    nice work with this great historic photos.
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Thank you!
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  • Flikit Pictures 7 months ago
    Awesome stuff, really brings life back to the old pics. Love how the faults and spots are part of the 3d scene as well ... really well done.
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Thanks!
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  • Arcturus Aldebaran 7 months ago
    Well done, the long hard working hours are really showing in this video....Picking up the little specks of the picture really helps with the depth perception.

    (I have been to Balaton! :-D )
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Hi Arcturus, thanks the comment! In the movie there are three 3D images with the Balaton, which aren't in this reel unfortunaltely. : (
    But I'll spent the whole weekend there! Cheers!
  • Arcturus Aldebaran 7 months ago
    Hello, thanks for your reply. There is however that "Balaton" on that guy's truck :-D
    Looking forward to the whole thing...Have a nice weekend!
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Ah, yes! There is "Balatoni út" which is an address, and means "road toward the Balaton". But the petrol station was in the capitol, more than hundred miles away.
    Thanks, anyway!
  • Videographers 5 months ago
    100 Km.... I think, not miles :)
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  • Mihai Zainea 7 months ago
    Lovely! The technique fits with the photos very well, indeed!
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Thank you!
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  • phon xay 7 months ago
    Is that 3d - looks really good, colud you go through the process - its worth a sharing.
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Hi Phon, there is a short screen captured scene from this project in my COMPOSITING REEL video.
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  • Geisterhund 7 months ago
    wow, fanastic! love the details and particles in the air.
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  • Joel Wagner 7 months ago
    Having done camera mapping animations before, I know how much work goes into getting it to look right. So congrats to a job well done! The only thing I don’t like is the chromatic aberration, I don’t think it adds anything and in fact is somewhat distracting.
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Hi Joel, thanks the comment! Yes, the chromatic aberration gives a little "fisher price look", but at the other hands it creates a little holographic feeling here as well. Which is nice. Maybe too much sometimes. : )
  • Yes, beautiful work Miklos.

    May I ask what you guys are referring to by 'chromatic aberration'?
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  • Joe Moya plus 7 months ago
    Wow... that is some nice work
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  • jcbd 7 months ago
    Wow, so much work, but a beautiful result. Sets the bar high for use of old b/w photos.
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  • Alex Hay plus 7 months ago
    Fantastic! Super-effective technique! How long did it take you per photo roughly?
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Hi Alex, I made more than 40 pictures with this technique, and at the start of the project I was a totally beginner. It is very dependent on the pictures, but roughly 3 days/photo is the making time. This includes the preparing of the photo with Photoshop, which is sometimes the bigger part.
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  • Skevos Mavros 7 months ago
    Adding specks of dust at various distances from the camera is great, it keeps the "antique" feel while moving through 3D, and helps with simulating depth.
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  • Mental Health 7 months ago
    A lovely, gently surprising piece of work!
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  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Thanks for sharing!
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  • wax78 7 months ago
    +1
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  • joan argemí 7 months ago
    +2
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  • Ben Bull 7 months ago
    Amazing, thanks for sharing
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  • Morten Eckersberg 7 months ago
    I'm so delighted and impressed by this.
    Job well done!
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  • tatica 7 months ago
    I love the render between 0:30 and0:40 - the way you kept the small dots on the image is just impressive... I felt like watching Avatar at the after-burning scene. Amazing work.
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  • SatoshiShirai 7 months ago
    GREAT!!!!!!L love this!!!!
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  • Thomas Kumlehn plus 7 months ago
    Please consider to render a second, stereoscopic pass and upload trueColor3D and falseColor3D (anaglyph) as well :-) Awesome work. Beautifully selected, prepared, timed and animated.
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Thank you! Good idea, I'll try it!
  • Thomas Kumlehn plus 7 months ago
    Have a look at my videos, all examples of the divers trueColor3D techniques.
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  • Chris Tulloch McCabe 7 months ago
    Really liked the 3d dust added nice depth!
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  • Kartoos 7 months ago
    Really well done!
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  • Erik Dobat 7 months ago
    Fantastic...
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  • Thomas Kluge 7 months ago
    Great!
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  • Nick Evans 7 months ago
    Great Job! Nice work!
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  • Robin Golembiewski 7 months ago
    looks cool! nice work! posted on robinmotion.com/blog
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Thanks for posting!
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  • Roland Szántó 7 months ago
    Gratulálok, ez eszméletlen jó. Látom, hogy a dokufilm a filmszemlén is volt - ha erről előbb tudok... Hol lehet majd még megnézni?
  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    És, köszönöm :) !
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  • Miklós Falvay 7 months ago
    Szeretnénk egy weboldalt a filmnek, ott meg is lehetne nézni. Egyenlőre egy facebook oldal van:
    facebook.com/pages/MOTALKO-Egy-benzink%C3%BAt-kr%C3%B3nik%C3%A1ja-The-Chronicle-of-a-Petrol-Station/165435103511527

    Ha lesz vetítés, gondolom felkerül.
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  • Inimputable 7 months ago
    Great job, congratulations!!
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  • getelemental 7 months ago
    absolutely wonderful. Great work!
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  • Carlos Cruz 6 months ago
    Hermoso, gran trabajo.
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  • Frank Glencairn 6 months ago
    Awesome. I try to something like that in Adobe After Effects in the moment, but it drives me nuts. A little tutorial that covers the basics, like how you prepare the oics in Photoshop and how to get the distances right, would be just great.
  • Miklós Falvay 6 months ago
    Hi Frank,
    I was in the same situation a year ago. I started the project in Fusion5, which is a similar compositing software like AE, but Fusion5 has better 3D capabilities. However, making some test with the software, I realized this wont be work with simple planes. I have to build models, 3D shapes and project the pictures as textures to them. I newer used any 3D software, but I heard about Blender, which is an open source 3D application and find these great tutorials from Andrew Price and Colin Levy:
    blenderguru.com/camera-mapping/
    colinlevy.com/tutorials.php

    These tutorials really helped me to start the project, but instead of the sticky mapping finally I used UV mapping as in this video:
    youtube.com/watch?v=ToMpcXGf0-c

    I hope these tuts help you as well!
  • Miklós Falvay 6 months ago
    And you can see a 3D viewport viewed scene in my compositing showreel video.
  • Frank Glencairn 6 months ago
    Thanks for your prompt answer. I work on 3D programs since years, but thought AE would be easier. It´s not. Back to square one. Time to fire up the 3D program.

    Frank
  • Miklós Falvay 6 months ago
    Good luck for your project! Please share the result!
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  • Johann Kasuch 6 months ago
    nice work. it's great what you can get out of an old image.

    I just finished a short movie with camera mapping as well.
    vimeo.com/26846214
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  • itai bachar 6 months ago
    Beautiful!
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  • Steven Benton plus 6 months ago
    Awesome!
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  • Pascal 6 months ago
    finally this is what in my oppinion 3d was made for. not for a stupid blockbuster crap. this is how it's meant to be and this is what amazes me. it's absolutely fascinating. outstanding work!
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  • miguel mendez 6 months ago
    Alucinante, me he quedado sin aliento con la técnica. Exquisita composición.
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  • Jason V plus 5 months ago
    This is nice work. Is the a tutorial on how to do this work?
  • Miklós Falvay 5 months ago
    Hi Jason,

    I found these great tutorials when I started the project by Andrew Price and Colin Levy:
    blenderguru.com/camera-mapping/
    colinlevy.com/tutorials.php

    These tutorials really helped me, but instead of the sticky mapping finally I used UV mapping as in this video:
    youtube.com/watch?v=ToMpcXGf0-c


    All the best,
    Miklos
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  • Jason V plus 5 months ago
    Hi Miklos,
    Thanks for sharing. I'm assuming you created a lot of those background from scratch. I was thinking that they were somehow extrapolated from the image and rendered somehow. I'm completely new to Blender so I'm sensing a steep learning curve.

    Will check out the tutorials.

    jason
  • Miklós Falvay 5 months ago
    Hi Jason,
    Sorry for the delayed answer. Yes, there was two different method to use the damages of the photos. The simplest way was to use textures with scratches. This textures was on independent planes in the 3D space and they were composited with the multiply node. The other method was, when I cut the tiny dirty spots from the original pictures, and multiply them with Blender's particle system.
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  • mahmutibarra 5 months ago
    What's the name of the song?
  • Miklós Falvay 5 months ago
    This is the original soundtrack from the movie, composed by Ferenc Darvas.
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  • Manifesto NYC plus 5 months ago
    Very impressive!
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  • rabid deniroe 5 months ago
    awesome!
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  • Thorsten Gartemann 5 months ago
    Beautiful.
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  • Sean Womersley 5 months ago
    This is truly amazing!
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  • Thank you Miklós! It is inspirational work... a new attractive way for precious collections to be acquainted with the public.

    P.S. Your audience got bigger: facebook.com/groups/kosson/
  • Miklós Falvay 5 months ago
    Thank you for the posting!
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  • CPD 5 months ago
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  • Fox In The Box 5 months ago
    zsír jó!
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  • ADSR Multimedia 5 months ago
    Hangulatos!
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  • rogerio nunes 5 months ago
    Very Beautiful, Miklos! I did a similar work some years ago also for a doc. Check it out, if you want.
    vimeo.com/17899294
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  • pedro soto 5 months ago
    that sensation of me wanting to this never end when i see the loading bar almost at the end ??..priceless!!!...great work dude....
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  • Peter Hjemdahl 5 months ago
    Amazing job, thank's for sharing. This is some of the most beautiful, subtle and respectful artistic tinkering with old photos I've seen.
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  • paulbrianthomas plus 5 months ago
    Simply fantastic., well done.
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  • Konrad Beckmann 5 months ago
    Stunning, I was really amazed...
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  • Winnie Slep 5 months ago
    Naturally that's going to be a big plus for Blender and rightly so. I think that is what all the people who have 3D see isn't it? Its the kind of thing that will get people interested in 3D I think, a good 2.5D migration step.
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  • Tom Reilling 5 months ago
    Fantastico!
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  • Nobuaki Tamaki 5 months ago
    Great !!

    It is one fusion of a photograph and an image.
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  • Very original idea, and done with Blender! Wow!
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  • BOLTgraphics 5 months ago
    Fantastic! I'd love to see a 'making of' of this. Magic!
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  • capo_sfu 5 months ago
    Gratulálok Miklós! Igazi remekmű! Csodás. Gratulálok!
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  • Attila Lecza 5 months ago
    Gratulálok! Nagyon zsír lett! :)
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  • Per Johansson 5 months ago
    Tök jó nagyon szép..

    Really great work, keep it up!
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  • Rafael Araújo 5 months ago
    Amazing job, man!

    Você fez um trabalho explêndido! Para mim uma fonte de inspiração!
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  • Akshay Sarma plus 5 months ago
    I've seen this type of work done before in documentaries but I'm very impressed with what you have put together. I experimented with Blender a long time ago, might be time to download the latest version and try a project like this.
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  • Wasim Mohammed 5 months ago
    I thought, at first, this was done in After Effects. It's really impressive.
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  • Pál Varsányi 5 months ago
    gratulálok, nagyon szép munka!
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  • casanova sebastien 5 months ago
    This is just fucking incredible dude ! great work. i'm just falling in love with your process.
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  • Santi Trujillo plus 5 months ago
    wow!! Amazing! Great job.
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  • Robert Meager 5 months ago
    like this animation and have often wondered how it is done???
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  • Eric Piccoli 5 months ago
    This brings life to the old. Great way to give something new using new techniques.

    Very inspiring and beautiful, thanks for sharing, I'm sure this fits awesome in a documentary or even fiction.

    Bravo.
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  • LuchitUP 5 months ago
    Excellent job! Absolutely awesome! =)
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  • Ana Inés Hermida 5 months ago
    So refined, pure art. I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you for the beauty, so necessary in these tough world :)
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