By Vurdlak on September 17, 2011, with 133 Comments
With a little help from Jemish Dave, I stumbled across a unique technique that left me mesmerized. Ever seen something like this below? Quit reading this text and check the illusion attached. How long does it take you before you notice what it hides? After you checked the illusion out, you may PROCEED reading – don’t cheat!….. Has it surprised you? It may take some time for these things to load, and it also depends on type of connection and speed of your interface for the effect to happen seamlessly, though! If you want to know, these things are called cinemagraphs (little different than stereoscopic images we already showed). Creating a cinemagraph photo is not as simple as it may appear. Some of them took their authors entire day to make, but as you see the results are breathtaking. Cinemagraph is a technique of blending the effects of images and videos. Some of them can end up quite exciting, funny or extremely creative. It might take few seconds for them to fully load, so be patient and watch carefully!
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This is a gif guys. Its just a silly prank image and not an illusion at all. All it does is have a still image for a while and then the rest of the animation plays.
I wonder if all the comments that are saying this are being removed. I sure hope at least one person here isn’t a fool.
But do u see the teeth when he smiles?
So I see the teeth (or something). Now what’s the illusion, other than a blended image?
Maybe that the guy looks kinda sad, though he is actually smiling? …
I love this movie too. Just checked the DVD original, and this sequence is certainly there, so it’s not a .gif creation – just a clever bit of cinematography, considering how long ago Hitchcock made it.
Maybe the above (pointless) comment on the guy being ‘ugly’ is because the poster has never seen the actual film ? I don’t think the character portrayed is meant to be a matinee idol !
You missed the all point…the illusion here is the cinemegraph effect itself..just the is moving whle everything else have stoped in time..search for cinemagraph on google images search you find that all the backfground or part of it is frozzen while only 1 part or 2 moves…it creates an interesting efect…our eyes are not used to it…we are seeing what it looks like a movie but we dont realise sundently that most of the image is frozzen…this is not a gif..which is succession of frames hat werent touched…the person who created it just have put the same background in all frames and decided what to move…check this site…some pretty good cinemagraphs:
http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/cinemagraph/
..i woudnt call this an illusion but still cool though…not this one particulry…but theres some cinemgraphs that you go ‘Wow’ !!!
As nobody has said it, I will. It’s from the end of Psycho. The original, genius version. Not the crappy remake. The effect is far clearer in the movie.
That’s really cool!
Wow, what a very.. “psycho”-tic illusion! I believe it was Hitchcock who made this.
It’s the first time I have seen the word cinemagraph, its cool and at the same time eerie – a still image coming to life, interesting
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It’s better in the movie, Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Psycho.” Norman Bates and his dead mother superimposed over his face b/c he has a split personality.
i see it! its a hidden skull when he moves, you can see the teeth on his upper lip when he moves. kinda scary!
What movie??
Psycho always creeped me out. Now I can’t shower again for another month, or more. Bath-time it is. Thanks.
it’s a skull! read this and cut-and-paste it for the source:
At the very end of the movie, as the shot on Norman Bates fades out and just before credits appear, you can see a brief super-imposing of a skull over Norman’s head. Then again, maybe you didn’t see this – the second run of the movies out there have this last special effect edited out, as Hitchcock couldn’t decide on whether to use it or not. Then, Hitchcock decided to re-introduce the special effect in two places for the third run of production! When Norman is standing by the swamp and looking very sinister, another skull is morphed onto his face. I had rented the original (production 1) copy, with only the ending-skull in place.
I took a screenshot right when the teeth appeared, but I still can’t see the rest of the skull.
This is the actual ending from Psycho. Hitchcock fully intended a merging of Norman and his dead mothers mumified face. Also as the scene progresses the car he put Janet Leigh’s body in is being dredged from a pond behind the hotel. The tow chain lines up with Norman’s heart as if it is being torn out of him
I didn’t realize that Hitchcock was so ahead of his time with this kind of stuff. WOW!
Now I gotta go rent the movie again!
That is the creepy image of all creepy images!
here there is a very good original slowing motion franes:
http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/skull.html
FREAKY and CREEPY!!!!!!!
It’s a bit creepy…The skull under the face when he looks up,plus your expecting it to not move…Though not scary enough to give you nightmares,it’s just a bit…Creepy.But cool.
Yes a Skull. I also love that the part of the mouth transforms into the Rope (Or chain I cant recall) in the next scene. Hitchcock is an amazing person.
How can you make these yourself?
This scared the crap out of me because I didnt read the top!
me neither!
Okay.I had to take my reading glasses off and lean back.I dont like that guy.He scared me more than the skull.
I don’t see it…
Is there a skull face in his hair? Is that what you’re talking about?
This sample is nothing like the other samples you link to. All the others are “3D wiggle” animated .GIFs. So… I’m not sure you’ve really educated us at all about the main image in this post.
Here’s a set of 15 Gorgeous Animated Cinemagraphs:
http://www.rawthemes.com/?cat=47
Omg this scared the shit out of me -.- lmao.
Love this man.. It’s awesome how you can get a picture to move so realistic.
This is crazy! It’s scared the hell out of me… I actually hid my screen after the illusion operated and I can’t seem to be able to look at it one more time …
I don’t know what it is supposed to do, but it scared the jeepers out of me when it moved! I didn’t cheat by reading on so I didn’t know it moved!
I’m almost scared to look again!
I see the faded teeth but any tips on how I can see the skull?
is he hiding his skull beneith his skin? because I do not see it. Is he a member of the hair club for men? is that what he is hiding
just watch his face very closely…^.^
OMG THAT SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME!! I ALMOST PEED MY PANTS THANKS ALOT!! xD
You guys really need to look up the word illusion. This is an illusion. Picture by picture gifs are illusions in themselves.
Totally creeps me out however it was done. Hope I don’t have nightmares tonight.
i c the illiosion omg!!!!