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Special Effect Portrait/Bringing Portrait to Life

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Topic: Special Effect Portrait/Bringing Portrait to Life
Posted By: vickifrank
Subject: Special Effect Portrait/Bringing Portrait to Life
Date Posted: 8/17/12 at 1:58pm
I get lots of questions on this topic at work, so I thought I'd share the article I've written on it.....   http://www.studio-productions-inc.com/white_papers/haunted_portrait.html - http://www.studio-productions-inc.com/white_papers/haunted_portrait.html
The article tells you how to bring a portrait or picture to life, or even to just how get a portrait printed.  It also tells you concerns and pitfalls.
 
So typical things you can do with information in this article:
 
  1. Print a portrait from picture. Ex: like a portrait of the Pooka in Harvey.
  2. Bring a Picture to Life. Ex: Bring DaVinci's Last Supper to life with live actors.  Ex: The closing scene in 1776 where the Signing of the Declaration of Indepence scene is brought to life behind the picture of the Declaration itself.
  3. Make the eyes of a haunted picture glow, or move. Or make spectral writing appear on a picture.
  4. Make a portrait fade away to reveal a skull, or the person aged or a live actor who gets up and walks out of portrait. Ex: Haunted Houses.
  5. Make a shadowy creature shrink and grow behind a scene. Ex: Transformation of Dr. Jeckyl to Mr. Hyde.
  6. Make a ghost in chains appear behind a wall.
  7. Or even a few trickier variations, so that Peter Pan jumps out of a window, but you now see him flying over the roof tops of London through the same window he jumped through!

If anyone else has some extreme Portrait to Life type challenges message me or add to this post.  Also keep in mind that the information goes beyond portraits to apply to scenery of other types, walls with wallpaper, ghosts behind scenery of battlefields...before and after scenes in museums, etc..

 
(I had a museum recently that had the antique rocking chair that a famous personage once used within his house.  They wanted that person to appear in the chair and then disappear to reveal the chair.)


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