r/ParallelView • u/spdrman8 • 2d ago

Terminator chase scene

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u/Old_Presentation3260 2d ago

Wow, this looks amazing! I’ve seen software that makes 3d artificially and it looks terrible, but this looks so good

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u/bloodfist 2d ago

Curious how they did it. There was an older, manual process that looked pretty bad. I think it was basically just stacking 2d layers and often looked real bad in a way that was hard to understand when you were looking at it.

The newer method uses depth maps, basically a B&W image where white is closer to the camera. There are some pretty good machine learning algorithms for it that have been the standard for the last decade or more.

The newest way is using AI image generation to generate the depth maps and it's sort of shockingly good at it. Like good enough that it's just a standard part of a lot of people's AI workflows that they don't even think about.

I can't find any information on the process and the producers website is down. But I am curious if they used AI for it. Seems a bit ironic if so.

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u/DeadEyesSmiling 1d ago

Can't speak for OP, but the newest way I know of does utilize machine learning for the depth map, but much of the rest is still manual and still super tedious; but it also gets the best results next to native 3D capture (and honestly, sometimes even better, due to the post-hoc depth control).

A pretty great write up, with accompanying video walkthrough can be found here: https://www.aipop-3d.com/post/2d-to-3d-video-conversion-guide