Making 3D animated effects for photos

Are you able to create 3D photo effects, a la Riding Giants, The Kid Stays in the Picture, etc...by just using PhotoShop and FCE? (not just a simple ken burns effect) or is this something that has to be done in AfterEffects? Does Motion allow you to do this as well? I was thinking I could just take a photo, cut it into layers and then stack the layers in a FCE timeline with different zoom times...or am I being naive?
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I can get textures, but i cant get any animated textures to work.
Well, that would require PS to support animated textures in the first place, would it not? And it simply doesn't. That asisde it's a pretty nonsensical workflow - whatever you are trying to do by hopping between 3 programs could probably be done easily in Blender's comp/ shading tree with direct access to texture data, render passes and all that. Realyl. For everything else you might wanan check this old article of mine to get an idea about a workflow that actually makes sense and plays out the benefits of working with render passes...
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