Hello, guys!

No tutorial yet, sorry, folks. But it's coming soon. Very soon.
In fact, I have all the screenshots ready and the tutorial notes on pieces of paper scattered across my desk. I just need time to put it all together.

Delays due to the lack of time. Another thing, I've tried 6 different images to create animations with different levels of complexity, and finally decided to use this one as a model for future tutorial.
Those who haven't read my first Still Photo 3D animation effect tutorial , can find it here

Based on this image


Animation


To make this animation I used MathMap plugin and Interleave Layers script by Ofnuts (IL is optional, but it will save you tons of time - thank you Ofnuts!)
More details in coming Tutorial. (See the Tutorial here)

Looks nice but feeling a bit seasick now!!!

Wow, that looks very hard to do. You even have both boats rocking.
nice job.

That is amazing, so lifelike.

Thank y'all!
I'm glad you guys have noticed that small boat is rocking too.

I made a flash (SWF) version of the same animation. It's only 900KB in size compared to 4.1MB of GIF version, and the quality is much much better (GIF sucks! ), unfortunately, this type of files unsupported here.

Thank you, 2-ton!
The only thing that bothers me - clouds aren't moving at all, no matter how long I stare at them.

But seriously, those colorful ribbons tied to the boat's beak do not look natural, but I can only do so much with a still photo.

skritnea: beautiful result! a very pretty picture you chose for the animation and i like your frame too.

I keep coming back to this one the moving water looks amazingly lifelike, and I feel I could reach out and touch the boat

Ahhhhh ..... yeah. No words for this. just WOW!