I believe this is is Trajan’s Kiosk, on Agilkia Island. Here is the wiki page, which also has a current image. Seems in the 1960′s, they moved this monument from the island of Philae because of high waters due to the construction of a dam on the Nile. I believe they got the date from existing images of the site. With a quick search I was able to find another flooded view from 1906 here.
I had trouble dealing with the warping of the kiosk on this image, but wanted to try out the water effect. I used a free program, Sqirlz Water Reflections, available at CNet here. The resulting gif was then chopped up so the top is wiggle between the two sides of the stereo, and the bottom was the Sqirlz gif. I added too many frames, which is why I’ve sized it down a bit. I would prefer to do the water by hand, but that’s taking some practice. There just aren’t any tutorials about how to create flowing water in an existing animation, especially with only 2 to 4 frames. And then taking that water and integrating it into the animation in a way to retain the 3d effect. There are, however, plenty of tutorials on how to make crappy ugly fake looking water in just a few frames. Maybe if I figure it out with a simple technique I will post one. If anyone knows of some good water tutorials, I’d love to get a link.
Find out how these are created here. View the original image here.
1930s - Pyramids & Camelmen at Giza, Wiggle
Posted by admin | Posted in Wiggle Animations | Posted on 31-10-2010
Tagged Under : 1930s, 1934, 1939, camel, camelmen, colorized, desert, egypt, giza, gizeh, great pyramid, pyramid, reflection, reflections, reflective
Another with a more slight wiggle. I’m finding I need more transitions between the two frames to create more realism in the animation - at least until I get the hang of adding extra movement. This one is primarily edited for movement in the sails. Another that I’m not totally happy with, but I’ve been staring at it way too long, and declare it… good enough.
View the original stereo card here. Find out how these are created here.
1906 - Sphinx & Pyramid, Colorized Wiggle
Posted by admin | Posted in Wiggle Animations | Posted on 10-10-2010
Tagged Under : 1900s, 1906, camel, colorized, desert, egypt, gizeh, middle east, middle eastern, mule, pyramid, sand, sphinx
1906 Sphinx and Pyramid - Wiggle Animation
Posted by admin | Posted in Wiggle Animations | Posted on 11-05-2010
Tagged Under : 1900s, 1906, animation, egypt, gizeh, history, illusions, khufu, photograph, pyramid, sphinx, stereo card, stereoscopic, stereoscopy, vintage, wiggle
1896 Camel Shibriyeh
Posted by admin | Posted in Wiggle Animations | Posted on 08-02-2010
Tagged Under : 1800s, animation, arab, camel, camel home, camel house, desert, egypt, history, house, illusions, old, photograph, shibriyeh, stereo card, stereoscopic, stereoscopy, viewer, wiggle
View the original image from the Library of Congress here.
1903 - Philae at the Nile
Posted by admin | Posted in Wiggle Animations | Posted on 29-09-2009
Tagged Under : animation, egypt, history, nile, philae, river, stereo card, stereoscopic, vintage
1931 - Zeppelin and Pyramid
Posted by admin | Posted in Wiggle Animations | Posted on 25-09-2009
Tagged Under : animation, egypt, history, photograph, pyramid, stereo card, stereoscopic, zeppelin, zepplin
This one had a pretty drastic angle, which made the people kind of distracting. But giant balloons are cool so it stays!