Ken Burns effect

Unity Engine
1

I’m working on a game with an Orthographic camera.
I use a plane to hold the background texture (the plane stands on it’s side).

I want to create a cool Ken Burns effect on the background.
What’s a good way to do that?

2

You mean parallax translation?
The easiest way would be to not use an orthographic camera.
I mean, the effect is the result of perspective rendering; why fake that when you can have it done automatically by a perspective camera?

If you really need to do this with an orthographic camera, try giving your plane something like this:

@RangeAttribute(0,1)
var distance = 0.5f;
private var initialOffset : Vector3;

function Awake()
{
  initialOffset = transform.position - Camera.main.transform.position;
}

function Update()
{
  transform.position = (Camera.main.transform.position * distance) + initialOffset;
}
3

Add the following post fx if you mean visually for a still pic (you should post example pics)

  1. http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/script-Vignetting.html
  2. http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/script-DepthOfFieldScatter.html
  3. http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/script-SepiaToneEffect.html or color correction or any other similar.
4

Maybe i did bad research work, but from what I found out, the Ken Burns effect is simply camera panning over an image and has nothing to to with the image colors…

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