Relax your eyes until the 2 squares converge into 3, and you should be able to see the 3D image pop out!
also hey rb this bc all my friends keep telling me im crazy and they dont believe theres actually a 3D image so i wanna see if other people can see it.
Hey everyone, I've created a video that shows how I make a shifting 3D effect animation from my 2D artworks using Gimp!
✦ Written guide below the break ✦
I'm using Gimp 2.10 on Pop!_OS
Open your image in Gimp.
Create a new layer over the art, color to black, and lower the opacity.
Starting with a dark to medium gray color fill in each element, working from back to front, visualizing the figures in a 3D space. Black is the background, white is closest to the front.
When your gradient map is complete, move the layer underneath the artwork and go to Filters➺ Map➺ Displace.
In Aux Input double click on the gradient map.
I personally prefer to work in Horizonal Displacement only, so I have to click the little chain link icon to the right to “break” the chain and allow only one axis to be displaced.
It doesn’t take a big shift to make an interesting effect, in this video I only move the artwork 2 degrees in each direction.
Here I displace two images total to create a perfectly looping four frame animation. Frame 1 shifts slightly to the left. Frame 2 is the original unedited painting. Frame 3 is shifting slightly to the right. The final frame is just a duplicate of frame 2, to create a perfect loop that goes: 1 2 3 2 … 1 2 3 2 … etc.
Make your animation! You can open all frames in Gimp to export as a GIF. Note that with your animation layers in Gimp, frame 1 is the bottom-most layer, going up from there.
For this video I simply opened the image files with my video editor Kdenlive, shortened each frame to 00:00;05 seconds, and made the loop that way.
Thanks for watching, let me know if you try this with your own work!