Sometimes there can be more life hidden within a 2D image than we think: artist Zsolt Ekho Farkas rendered Gyula Benczúrs painting The Recapture of Buda in 1686 in a 3D frame, producing a video that lets viewers almost walk through the painting and experience bloodshed in chilling detail. The process was laborious: first, Ekho analyzed the original to see how the characters were positioned in 3D space. Then he made each character into a ready-to-animate figure, placing textures and painting over them to match the original work of art. …
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