How to do they Create Motion in this example

[Thread7]

I want to create a simple startup demo video. I'm not an artist but I've used Adobe products like Premiere a decent amount. So I figure I can take some stock art of stick figures and create it. But to give the illusion of motion I'd like to do something like you see in this link:

http://youtu.be/Od1xyyFlllc

If you don't use Adobe products but know how to do this in another video editor please share too.

Thank you.

[poisondeathray]

I want to create a simple startup demo video. I'm not an artist but I've used Adobe products like Premiere a decent amount. So I figure I can take some stock art of stick figures and create it. But to give the illusion of motion I'd like to do something like you see in this link:

http://youtu.be/Od1xyyFlllc

If you don't use Adobe products but know how to do this in another video editor please share too.

Thank you.

Yes, there isn't actually any character/figure animation in that video

It can be done quite easily in after effects. Someone has made a preset to simply this "Squigglevision", and you can download the preset from the commentary in this link
http://vimeo.com/17863639

You can do something similar in Premiere by using the Turbulent Displace effect and keyframing the cycle/evolution parameters
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS1B7D8092-D329-4bd1-8763-4E1050BFFA23a.html

[jagabo]

They're just alternating between two images. I downloaded the video, saved two images, opened them in VirtualDub, copied the two frames to the paste buffer, appended that copy to the end of the video several times, set the frame rate to 10 fps, then exported as animated GIF.



Click on the image above to see the animated result.

Of course, you could just as well have exported as an AVI file. You can do something like this in just about any video editor. No special plugins required.

You can also do the same with a simple AviSynth script:

p1=ImageSource("pic1.png") 
p2=ImageSource("pic2.png") 
Interleave(p1,p2)
AssumeFPS(10)

[Thread7]

These are great suggestions. Thank you so much!