By Vurdlak on September 17, 2011, with 132 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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Isn’t a cinemagraph just an animated GIF?
Don’t get it too.
I don’t get it lol
Other than the shadow under the front bit of his hair seems to move up & down his forehead when he lifts his head to smile… I don’t get what I’m suppose to be seeing lol
I also see the fringe shadow comming a bit later
OK I have a slow internet
like only saw the other with the youtube link
Lame. Not an illusion. Simply a .gif.
Thats kinda funny!
Newbies:
As his head is going back down, he does one motion at a time, head, mouth, so on, unlike when his head goes up and all things happen simultaneously.
Sorry. also his body is not moving and the only lighting changes are on his face.
it just makes my laptop freeze
he’s not smileing he’s grimacing.
Wow.. First of all.. That is what you can call a beautiful man, especially when the smile comes up.. Please correct if I’m wrong, but it is a picture, that is animated right? It looks real realistic to me.
norman bates from psycho. when he raises his head and smiles a skull is super imposed over his face. creepier in the actual movie.
The key about a cinemagraph is that most of it is a still photo and only some parts of it move. It is more like a living photo than a full gif animation. The effect is somewhat like a time-frozen world with one aspect that is animate and can be either “Artsy” or “goulish”. It reminds me of animatronics.
Soooo, I’m the only one who sees a teeth when he smiles???
Is this a scene from “Psycho”?
ok thats a bit freaky
You all know, of course, that this is actor Anthony Perkins who played Norman Bates (of Bates Motel fame) in the film Psycho.
It scares me in a way…
What’s happening with his top lip?
it’s norman bates from the movie ‘psycho’ in which he assumed the identity of dead mother. not sure, but maybe there’s a slight image superimposed over his smile – like the teeth from the final shot of her corpse.
I’m also not clear on what you’re asking us to see here. That he moves at all? That he is moving in discrete chunks? That weird things are happening to the lighting?
Yeah, just a guy looking up and down. No illusion at all.
I don’t get it…
There appears to be a skull behind his face.
When he smiles, you can see his tooth, C R E E P Y
Watch his mouth, and you can see his teeth
I dont get it
holy crap, that scared the shit out of me, thats scary
This motion is not a real motion.
Ther are 2 picture: 1 looking down and the other loking up,
The illusionis that out of these 2 pictures the pictures in between the movemnt were handmade to get the illusion of a movement.
Get it? It s NOT a movie put into an inimated GIF it is an Animated GIF made of 2 photos (start and end)
The illusion is from the Alfred Hitchcock movie “Psycho”. It’s the last thing you see at the end of the movie. If you’ve not seen it, I won’t spoil it, but what you’re supposed to see is a skull superimposed over the man’s face.
This is actually quite easy to do, just use Animation Shop 3 and you will find that this is not as uncommon as you might think.
if you look close at the end of the smile. you see a skull teeth. kinda like you would see in a horror flick.
It might just be me but it looks like there is a pic of a skull is layered in there. His mustache looks like a dental x-ray.
I think i can see a skull
woah!!! that one took me forever!!!! but thats crazy!!!
I do not understand how this is an illusion at all. At first it scared me a bit when I saw it move because I though that was somehow the illusion, but then I realized it is just an animated gif.
Could someone please explain why/how this is classified an illusion? Am I missing something here???
No, look at his upper lip just as he looks down – it looks like you can see through to his teeth. I don’t get the whole thing, but I’m thinking a skull might show through briefly… ?
Okay, I think I see it .. watch his upper lip .. it looks like his face partially transforms to a skull
Well…from my point of view….its Freaky!!!
I also don’t get it.
ok in 1962 the movie Psycho by the great Alfred Hitchcock made and this is the real shot from the movie that mt friends is Anthony Hopkins, as his had is bowed he says i won’t even kill this fly as head comes up they will see i can’t even hurt a fly movie fades to black
Boring
Wheres the illusion?
I see, at the peak of his smile, him turning into an older man, OR him smiling at you showing his teeth. Don’t look directly at it expecting a big smile, it’s just very subtle. I tried concentrating on the tip of his nose, or his mole thing by his mouth to see this. You clearly see teeth and maybe a a few more wrinkles on his forehead. It’s possible it is an x-ray layer or a skull. So, to Kano, we are not all “newbies”. Don’t try to act like you know the solution when you clearly did not look close enough. What you said has nothing to do with it. And you’re calling people newbies while at the same time being completely wrong?
teeth are showing threw his upper lip
i have noticed that when he is smiling, it looks as though he has rinkley shin just abouve his mouth.
No. When he smiles, you can see his teeth through his top lip.
I can’t watch it long enough as I find it scary, what does that say about me?
i just find him creepy
he reminds me of a pettifile
Keep looking at his eyes.
The third time he smiled at me, he got me scared! After reading the text I noticed it was the picture coming through.
SPOILER ALERT:
SPOILER ALERT:
The picture of a skull is hidden inside, showing just for a short moment and really faint. While looking at his upper lip, you can see the teeth coming through.
The statement “How long does it take you before you notice what it hides?” seems to beg that there is something going on besides the obvious; which is the man’s head and eyes tilt up as he smiles and then he looks down. As another viewer noticed, the up movement is fluid and the down movement is separated with head, smile and eyes moving separately.
The transition between moving and not moving is un-noticeable which makes me wonder if toward the end of the down movement where he lowers his eyes is where the transition takes place to form the loop.
I too noticed the shadow beneath the hair on the front/top of his head seems to have a life all it’s own.
I kept starring to discover something “hiding” but saw nothing else.
Dough!
Ummm… guys, this is a clip from Psycho, right toward the end, where Hitchcock superimposes “mother’s” skull over Anthony Perkins’ face; it is clipped so you only see a few frames of the skull image before it loops backwards to the start pose. The person who posted this clip didn’t really do anything except show good taste in movies.
is/are there any hidden head(s) in his hair?
Do his teeth show through his upper lip when he’s smiling/grimacing?
I don’t get this. What is illusory about it
Watch his teeth shining through his upper lip for just one second.
Oh man, YES! The teeth.
Dough!
i think i know what i’m supposed to see (dead
mother’s mummified face), but i STILL don’t see it…
Download the Image.
It is a set of 49 images, of which only one is Complete. other are simply dots, that show a little change in the expression.
Doesn´t anyone see the skull behind his face. Start looking at his lips then you will first see the skulls teeth.
Just seen it… there’s a skull merged in the back…. watch carefully the upper lip, in the final frames, you can see teeth… scary!!!
when he looks up his face goes skeletal you can see his teeth through his upper lip.
It’s not as simple as a video turned into GIF. Light fluctuations are natural! The creator of this had to make everything except for his head a completely still frame so that nothing moves.
When the head moves, that is GIF because you can see the pixel fluctuations but everything else is just a STILL frame.
If it ALL were a GIF then you would see little flickers and fluctuations moving in the background and hence you would not be fooled.
I see teeth through his mouth as he looks back down. Is that what is supposed to be the illusion?
I thought the teeth xray thingy was just wrinkles from smoking cigarettes. Hahahaha.
Kind of creepy lol
This is the stupid most retarded BS excuse for an “Illusion” that I have ever seen. Just so you know. P.S. The man in the picture/video is ugly too!
OK then mister grumpy face
Dang… Thanks for your opinion, at least myself and others are enjoying it. Maybe you have something that YOU feel is better to contribute. I’m sure no one would shoot down your post right?
Your response how childish and rude you are – may I suggest you grow up. If you do not like the illusions, then do not visit the site.
Perhaps you do not like this illusion because you are missing the illusion.
All I see is when he smiles his top lip wrinkles (for the lack of a better description). It is interesting what you can do with blending…
watch his mouth . his teeth appear like a x-ray image
That’s just creepy. I don’t like it.
there is a skull just under his face, if you look at the mouth when he grimaces you can see the teeth of the skull.
Sorry @kano his head moves both times. It can be verified by looking at the edge of the image where his hair moves out of the frame and back into it.
There is no illusion here! If someone did create this by other than pure photographic means then it’s simply photo manipulation. NOT illusion.
I think what you are supposed to see is his skull underneath when he lifts his head up and smiles. look at his top lip when he smiles, you can see his teeth as well as his cheek bones etc..
when he lifts his head and smiles, I see a skull. Look at his upper lip when he smiles, you’ll see the teeth of the skull.
Kind of freaky.
Hint: Carefully watch his upper lip. You should be able to see it.
Look CLOSELY! just above his top lip, it looks like his teeth are showing wen he smiles!
I see a skull phase in and out when he smiles. You can just make out the area around the mouth.
Creepy!
it’s not a gif. i love this movie. the illusion is part of the movie and they did not have gif. then.look for a vauge skull on his face!!!
There’s something very weird about his eyes…are they upside down or something?
It probably helps if you know what movie this is from. The plot is important. Enough said.
How am I supposed to know which movie this is from?
See The Ghost Rider. Same effect, same creepy view.
No! I worked it out! It is the fact that the head moves without the rest of the body!
What movie?
I was thirteen when I saw Psycho. The skull is a little more noticible on the big screen, but it’s my favorite scene from the movie.
I recognised the picture of Bates as soon as I saw it, but is this a skull comp’d onto a short section of film, or has the whole movement come about through manipulating a single source image in photoshop? Anyone know?
Oh, and who’se Jemish Dave?