Hi. I’ve just seen this https://mobile.plotagraphpro.com
Great effect! Is there perchance an open source way to do something similar, or exactly the same?
Perhaps shoot several frames and use some masking on your subject, then make a gif.
At least the pieces for it are there already, you just have to put them together. Here is a very quick example using G’MICS morph layers:
This is just a quick variation of the base image created using cage deform then morphed using G’MIC. I’m sure you could go much fancier if you wanted to.
Edit: That was a bit subtle. Here is a more obvious version
Isn’t this the project that Trey Ratcliff has been advertising these days? (edit - yep - just checked and it appears so).
He talks about it a bit more here:
http://trey-ratcliff.squarespace.com/
[edit] - also holy mackeral $299usd…
Maybe we should write a tutorial and jump on this bandwagon!
I saw that price tag… Chic isn’t cheap! Probably why I’m never en vogue.
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I’m a bit suprised that this is an actual product. It looks much more like a cool weekend hack than something to use professionally. In practice I think a tool to make videos easily loopable would yield a lot less … creepy … results than this. But what do I know.
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Consider the name behind it. This is the guy who made HDR pretty popular, right?
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After playing around with the morph a bit more the effects that can be achieved with it are limited. But it shouldn’t be too hard to cook up something that can also do the more periodic stuff. Something like:
- Mask out region to animate
- Fill in the static stuff using inpaint
- Make it periodic using
- Make it periodic (resynthesizer can make tileable textures, not sure if G’MIC has that too)
- Create the animation by sampling the periodic textures (at positon+velocity*time)
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The 299 dollar tag is what caused me to choke a little 
I like the effect though, but not THAT much 
Yep - of course, listen carefully to what @Jonas_Wagner is saying - because that is the seed for disrupting a $299 product with Free Software (or at least cheaper if he actually makes it and wants to market it).
Could there be some use for the Gimp Animation Package here?