First Stop Motion Test...
- Thread starter Digler
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Cool! But that 2 seconds was a half hour of work? Just set up and snapping pics or does that include creating it too?
Ya I did stop animation for awhile & it does take a lot of time & work.
Tips:
always use a tripod
Take a background shot without the figures. This will help fix mistakes if you have photoshop or other program with layers to erase things like a hand in the shot.
Use steady lighting & a video camera, still cameras can vary the colors from shot to shot.
Have patients
Have a plan, its amazing how much work goes into less than a second worth of footage. (Then you have 30 more seconds to fill on the video.
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You don't have to make 30 pictures per a second, take some key poses & the mind will often fill in the motion. Try 3 -10 shots per a second depending on what the final output will be.
Tips:
always use a tripod
Take a background shot without the figures. This will help fix mistakes if you have photoshop or other program with layers to erase things like a hand in the shot.
Use steady lighting & a video camera, still cameras can vary the colors from shot to shot.
Have patients
Have a plan, its amazing how much work goes into less than a second worth of footage. (Then you have 30 more seconds to fill on the video.
)You don't have to make 30 pictures per a second, take some key poses & the mind will often fill in the motion. Try 3 -10 shots per a second depending on what the final output will be.
Thanks guys for the offers of help....un-fucking fortunately, I dropped my camera...I just bought a long usb cord so I could run the camera to the back of the dio...well it worked great until I tripped on the cable and down came the camera on the garage floor...FUUUUCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK its fucked......repair is minimum $200...which I don't have right now...FUUUCKKKK.... guess this project is on hold for a while, and all other pics of stuff...shit guys sorry.
I absolutely love stop motion. Back befor I had children and I was forced to become a responsible adult I used to spend my days off playing with my camcorder making stop motion videos. Back then my camcorder was basically a vcr with a lens , so it was a particularly daunting task to make a 5 minute video. I feel your pain brother , keep up the good work.
Looks nice and crisp.
This is all I did in HS. I remember, I did a 10 minute video for an art project with a couple partners and it ended up being just all of my work because it's the type of film making that's hard to incorporate a crew.
It was kind of like a subterranean aliens/predator story. Very cool for a 14 year old but I bet it didn't age well. It was at a time where everything had to be done with handycam film, karaoke machines, stereos, and VCRs for editing. Absolutely no digital or computer aided editing.
I kind of wish I can get back to doing it just because there's so much that can be done in terms of editing and sound engineering. Plus I can just take pictures and load them up at 24fps. But obviously I'd have to give up work, sleep, and possibly food.
This is all I did in HS. I remember, I did a 10 minute video for an art project with a couple partners and it ended up being just all of my work because it's the type of film making that's hard to incorporate a crew.
It was kind of like a subterranean aliens/predator story. Very cool for a 14 year old but I bet it didn't age well. It was at a time where everything had to be done with handycam film, karaoke machines, stereos, and VCRs for editing. Absolutely no digital or computer aided editing.
I kind of wish I can get back to doing it just because there's so much that can be done in terms of editing and sound engineering. Plus I can just take pictures and load them up at 24fps. But obviously I'd have to give up work, sleep, and possibly food.