The ability to manipulate objects in 3D while maintaining realism
greatly expands the repertoire of creative manipulations that can
be performed on a photograph. Users are able to quickly perform
object-level motions that would be time-consuming or simply impossible
in 2D. For example, from just one photograph, users can
cause grandma’s car to perform a backflip, and fake a baby lifting a
heavy sofa. We tie our approach to standard modeling and animation
software to animate objects from a single photograph. In this
way, we re-imagine typical Photoshop edits—such as object rotation,
translation, rescaling, deformation, and copy-paste—as object
manipulations in 3D, and enable users to more directly translate
what they envision into what they can create.