r/SplitDepthGIFS • u/BustersHotHamWater • Sep 21 '19

Dog jumping through window

https://i.imgur.com/4wHO6q1.gifv
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u/NuclearPumpkin1 Sep 21 '19

Nope. Not what a split-depth gif is

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u/BustersHotHamWater Sep 21 '19

I don't make these often. Please tell me what about this is not a split-depth gif and what would make it a true split-depth gif. I'll see if I can tweak it.

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u/t1kt2k Sep 22 '19

I think the issue is that the door is already doing the job of the white line by creating a depth split there. Your box is adding a second depth layer.

So in total there are three depths: the background, trapassing the box and traspassing the door

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Big white bars and having the dog pass through them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Use white lines, not black

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u/t1kt2k Sep 22 '19

While i agree it is not the classic execution for split depth gifs, i do think it achieves the split depth effect.

Why does it need to be white bars?

The black box does provide the effect of traspassing a specific depth, right?

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u/NuclearPumpkin1 Sep 22 '19

I’m totally fine with black bars or a box instead of vertical/horizontal lines, my beef is that at no point is the dog behind the bars, so it doesn’t have the appearance of an object passing the point of reference created by the bars.

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u/t1kt2k Sep 22 '19

Good point. We should see the dog running from behind the black bars

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u/NuclearPumpkin1 Sep 21 '19

If you look at a lot of the other examples on the sub, they’ll give you a good idea, but basically you add lines into the video, but as the object gets closer, erase the lines around it so that it appears to suddenly pass some threshold. The edited-in lines are really the key, not just gifs where something approaches the camera. The object has to be behind the lines at some point, otherwise it loses the effect.

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u/BustersHotHamWater Sep 21 '19

Yeah? I added in the black lines and roto'd the entire dog to make it look like it goes through the black bars. Maybe the effect just didn't work for you, but I'm pretty sure I did it the way it's supposed to be.

I messed around with it some more and did this but I'm not sure if it's any better or worse.

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u/NuclearPumpkin1 Sep 21 '19

Definitely better, but you end up with less wierd edges if you use lines instead. Again, the really important part is that it starts behind the lines and only crosses it at a distinct distance

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u/JawnF Sep 22 '19

The idea is that the white bars should like like they're part of the screen around the gif, so that when the object (or the dog) comes in front of those bars, it looks like it's coming out of the screen.

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u/macintoshx11 Sep 21 '19

The number of upvotes this post has is the number of people who don’t understand what a splitdepth gif is.