The Snowman: A Stereogram Animation
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2009
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There is no need to adjust your monitor... just your focus. :)
For those of you who can see stereograms, I hope you enjoy this!
Never seen a stereogram before? The goal is to unfocus your eyes and look through the screen, until the repeating pattern merges and you see the 3D image.
Three tips that might help to look through the screen:
1) Try focusing on the wall behind and above your computer screen, then keep your eyes focused at that distance but move them down so that you are looking through the screen.
2) If you have a CRT monitor, try focusing on the reflections in the screen.
3) Start up close to the screen, unfocus your eyes so you're looking through the screen, and slowly back away. - Фільми й анімація
If someone catches you staring at white noise for an hour, they're gonna call a doctor or an exorcist. Interesting effect tho ^^
I am watching a stereogram animation and I never even thought of this.
lol
😂
Kids at school say "I'm sauced"
bad apple magic eye is a bit clearer to see compared to this one...
I used the open-source 3D animation program Art of Illusion to make the snowman animation, and rendered it as a black-and-white depth map. Next I imported the depth map into 3DMiracle to make it a stereogram. Any 3D animation software (like Blender, Maya, or 3D Studio) should be able to make the depth map, but 3DMiracle is the only program I have found that can turn an animated depth map into a random-dot stereogram video.
Thanks for watching! :)
It's lovely 👍🏻
If only the quality wasn't that bad, those rapid-changing patterns are hell to any compressor lol.
But yeah, I can see something.
I agree
I'm going to try at half speed after reading ur comment. Although I saw it fine and thought it was fun.
It was even better at 0.5 speed! Unintentional consequence the tune improved like 1mill percent
I Saw the Snowman loosing His hat then the end looked like a train scared it away or something
It depends on your internet connection. I've seen the entire thing clearly. But yeah, it should mess with the compression - but maybe not at the highest quality? I did see blurriness when I was at a lower speed internet connection.
I still can't see it, does it have anything with the "Get focused" and the dots at the beginning?
Wow, I had no idea animated stereograms existed. This is awesome.
someone made a bad apple version of it
My first animated stereogram. This is awesome! I love stereograms, and I'm lucky enough to see the images very quickly and easily. Going to look for more now. Thanks for posting this!
duck with ball on the beak, trolley with wheels and The END
Посмотри "bad apple"
anyone else get here after the 'bad apple' stereogram and wanted to see more?
Yes
yep
Me
Yes
thats shockingly accurate
@ThePhantomChick yea that would be cool if they came out wth some 4D camera so it feels like your riding the ride lol. BTW do you use some program to make this? If so what is it?
Thanks for the nice comments! I'm glad you could tell what everything was -- including the PhantomChick logo at the end! :)
It was actually fairly easy to make... I made a 3D animation (wich was the by far the toughest part), saved it as a black-and-white "depth map", and used 3DMirace to turn the depth map into an animated stereogram.
I like how I had no idea what happened at the end, I just know that the snowman kept losing his hat (or at least thats what i think the looking around on the floor was) and then just "the end" in the clearest stereogram text ever pops up.
i believe what happens at the end is the snowman makes a snowball, throws it, and then a snowplow comes along
Finally a stereogram animation which is not a looped sequence! Great animation with funny ending, I love it!
Something kept knocking his hat off his head and he kept picking it up then eventually he picked up a snowball and threw it and ran away... and then a huge truck came and drove by. the end lol
It was a snow plow. And after the "the end" text, I think it showed the snowman smiling.
That is exactly what happened.
This is amazing. I can see the snowman playing in the movie. Great Talent who created this movie.
I loved it :) after you get used to these stereograms, its great fun. I'd love to see longer and better quality stereogram animations.
Haha this is great. I thought regular stereograms were cool but animated ones make it so much better.
Great. This is the first time I saw a 3D movie without glasses. Thanks for it.
MOREE, this is perhaps the best one YET!
Totally amazing! More!
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww incredible!
I just learned to see stereograms. This is awesome!
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you could see it. This one is also hard to see because of the low resolution. If you want to check out my recent stereogram animation, Origami, I made that in HD resolution. (But the background constantly changes on that one, too.)
They're HEEEEEEEEEEERE!!!! A very cool (no pun intended) piece of 3D animation. Very fluid movements.
none of my friends believe me when I tell them about steroegrams. It's rather funny
Same
I had a hard time trying to focus, but once I could, it was magical. It's a shame the video resoluton is so low. But, congrats! This was amazing.
Absiolutely brilliant. Fooled me at first because I was waiting for it to start unaware that it was already a stereogram.
So clever.
Thanks for the ratings and nice comments! Nice list of favorites.
I now know what a QR scanner feels like
The goal is to look *through* the image (like you are looking off into the distance) until the repeating pattern merges. So you should actually be un-crossing your eyes. (Some stereograms use the crosseye method, but mine use the more common parallel method.)
It might help if you focus on the wall behind and above your computer screen, then *keep your focus at that distance* but bring your eyes down so that you are looking through the screen, and seeing double of what is on the screen.
Love it! Love the music with it too.
Thanks for the comment -- I'm glad you saw it! The "train" at the end is supposed to be a snow plow. ;)
Anyone having a hard time focusing, you have to overlap the circles 2 apart, not the ones next to each other. Also make sure the video is small enough.
Can you please tell me the software you use to create animated stereography?
Thanks for the comment and suggestion! I'm planning on making another stereogram animation (probably not for a little while, though), and I'll definitely consider having a couple seconds of a still stereogram to help focus.
It takes me less then a second to see these... I used to have an app with thousands!
Did the truck/train thing run over him?
The main problem about making this animation with a random dot pattern is that it is very hard to compress, resulting in a very noticeable loss of quality and a blurry image... good job though.
First time for me in animated stereograms. Thank you, very cool :-)
You got it! And the truck was actually a snowplow. (It goes by so fast, several folks have said it looks like a train...)
Thanks for watching & commenting!
THE END
Personal tip: Don't put it in full screen. The smaller size video makes it easier to focus on.
+Kazza FDM I'm actually saying the opposite. If it's too big (or closer) it's harder.
+MBobLamy ~ I can see it in any size, at any distance, on my laptop. When I cast it to my HDTV - nothing.
Awesome. LOVE it.
OMG, looks great!
I saw it once. Now it won't work anymore :(
same here :(
Alexander Vyn Wha?
Alexander Vyn Your joke doesn't work.
Yes! Thanks for watching -- I'm glad you could see it! :)
I love this! it was so pretty!
THATS SO COOL WTHH I LOVE THESE
Thanks for the nice comment -- I'm glad you like them! :) I'm currently working on another one, but I'm not sure yet when it will be done.
I used Art of Illusion (AOI) to make the depth map animation (but other programs like Blender or 3D Studio should work, too), and 3DMiracle to turn the depth map animation into a stereogram. AOI is free open-source, and 3DMiracle is pretty cheap.
I've never been able to see stereograms well, but I like to trip balls so still enjoyed!
thats awesome!
Omg so amazing the snowman is moving
You got it! My newer stereogram animations should be easier to see, since they are higher quality. This was my first attempt, so I was still working out the video formatting. Thanks for the comments! :)
amazing video never seen a stereogram in motion before thanks!
@chrismofer - I'm glad you can see it! For best results to see my stereograms, though, you actually need to *uncross* your eyes, like you're looking into the distance. Crossing them makes the 3D images appear inside-out. Some other stereograms are made for the cross-eye viewing method. Thanks for watching!
now THAT was cool. Bravo!
Never saw a 3D stereograms moving before. Thanks...
Thank you. :) I'm glad you were able to see it.
I used the freeware 3D animation program Art of Illusion to make the snowman animation, then saved that as a black-and-white depth map. Then I imported the depth map into 3DMiracle to make it a stereogram. Any 3D animation software (Blender, Maya, 3D Studio, etc) should work for making the depth map, but 3DMiracle is the only program I have found that can turn an animated depth map into a stereogram movie.
Thanks for watching! :)
Can we just be silent for a minute and think about *how friggin fast our brains put patterns together????* that is insane!
I don't remember seeing any books with Disney stereograms. The ones I saw were a few made by Magic Eye, and one Christmas book. Maybe there are more stereogram books than I thought!
@stopglobalswarming -- I'm glad you were able to see it! :) The snowman is supposed to be alone... the other figure might have just been fragments of the edge of the stereogram. The truck that chases the snowman is a snowplow.
It is *much* harder to see this in full screen, since I designed it for the normal-screen mode. The repeating pattern spreads out a lot. To see it in full screen, you would need to unfocus your eyes more than I can comfortably look at -- probably so that you're focusing a few miles away.
Back in the day, I loved checking out Magic Eye books from the library. I don't think there were many... we probably looked at the same one! :)
Thanks for commenting!
To me it looked more like Penguin, and the text 'this the end' was remarkble clear !
That was fun. Thank you.
the best thing in this year !
Thanks... I'm glad you liked it, and could see it! :)
that was the 1st time i saw stereogram in animation well done :)
This is amazing
Wow, i love the video! The snowman throwing a ball and then being chased by a tractor! :D I want more of this!
this is awesome!!
@pardavesiela -- Thank you for watching! I have 4 other stereogram animations, if you would like to see more. :)
Glad to hear it! :)
now that was so clever, i am used to seeing the magic eye pictures but never moving ones, very well done
If you focus your eyes past the computer screen so that each of the circles merge with the ones next to it, your eyes are focused far enough to see the stereogram. Thank you for mentioning that you focus on "The end"... someone had mentioned earlier that it would be helpful if I had a few seconds of a still stereogram before the animation starts. I think that will work better than the circles, so Ill try that in my next stereogram video.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for making this! Amazing! ❤😊
Thanks for the comments! I'm glad you liked the videos! I'm planning on making my future stereogram animations in HD resolution.
Glad you got it! Thanks for the comment! :)
omg I loved it I never seen an actual video being done it's amazing , I thought only pics where made
WOWW dude thta very freakin cool, best animation ever its like other dimension ACE BRUH
Thanks for the nice comment! I'm glad you were able to see it.
Very Awesome. Very Clear. Especially the letters at the end.
(i meant the letters at the movie end, after the snowman flees.)
I am sure that the so-called stereograms in wide circles are a massive trolling of me, because I have never seen anything on them, while doing everything as it should
LOVE IT!! :)
this is really amazing work! MORE MORE MORE
np, i also feel this is the best stereogram animation ive seen, all the other ones just arent right.
AWESOME!!!
@Aerostryker2 -- Sure... I used the freeware program Art of Illusion to make an animated greyscale depth map, then used 3DMiracle to turn it into an animated stereogram. Other modeling programs - like 3D Studio, Blender - should work for generating the depth map. As far as I'm aware, 3DMiracle is the only software that can use an animated depth map as input. Thanks for watching! :)
Thanks for the comment! I'm glad you liked it! :)
@k1y2r3i4e5 -- Thanks for the comment -- I'm glad you liked it! :)
The program I used is 3DMiracle. It's the only software I've found that can turn an animated depth map into a stereogram video. (Other software seems to be limited to still pictures as output.) I made the greyscale depth map animation with the open-souce 3D animation program Art of Illusion, but any 3D animation software (like Blender, Maya, 3D Studio, etc.) should be able to make the depth map.
animated!!! brilliant, original, and really funny. more !! :D
Fantastic work! :)
It is awesome! Good job!
this is awesome
@manasx53 - I think it's both. As far as I'm aware, an autostereogram is a type of stereogram. This type is also known an as a SIRDS, or Single Image Random Dot Stereogram. Thanks for watching!
Really nice man, great job
Thanks for the comment -- I'm glad you liked it! :)
Thanks for the nice comment! I'm glad you were able to see it!
Wow! Great animation! I love stereograms, but ANIMATED stereograms... wow.
A job well done!
I watched this 78,000 times and cant see it. That's 54 days of my life I can never get back.
run little snowman...run :))) excellent video
that was freakin awesome!!! :D
Idk how I see these with astigmatism