Here’s an amazing short film titled “The Old New World” by photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov of Moscow, Russia. Zakharov found old photos of US cities from the early 1900s and brought them to life.
The photos show New York, Boston, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore between 1900 and 1940, and were obtained from the website Shorpy.
It’s a “photo-based animation project” that offers a “travel back in time with a little steampunk time machine,” Zakharov says. “The main part of this video was made with camera projection based on photos.”
Converting 2D images to 3D videos is not something new. If you’ve used After Effects before, then chances are you’ve probably worked on a 2D to 3D project — but you’ve probably never created something as ridiculously awesome as Alexey Zakharov’s The Old New World.
With the help of modern 3D and compositing software, the Moscow-based artist created a video featuring real vintage images that have been transformed into living 3D worlds . If you haven’t seen the video here it is:
