In addition to making tiny steps toward the completion of Vitruvius I’ve also started pre-production on some other projects. Part of the process is getting familiar with the HV20 and further development of the sets. Doing these tests help determine composition and lighting but instead of just taking a single photograph I animate several seconds of animation (sometimes just using the pop-thru approach) to keep myself in the frame-by-frame animating mode. I plan to post these videos as time permits.
Author: Grant
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Ticks Fundraising Event
In local news…
Justin Curfman, a local animator, is putting together a fundraising and networking event on June 7, 2008 to support the creation of his next stopmotion film called “Ticks”. View the Ticks teaser trailer and other videos by Justin on his YouTube site.
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Vitruvius Update
Vitruvius is still being edited in between other activities (including prep work for the next project). I actually find taking time away from a project to be good because when you view it again after weeks or months of absence you can view it fresh and sometimes differently. As I recall, it was almost a whole year between shooting Man Drawing a Reclining Woman and final editing with sound. In any case, here is a short clip from the work-in-progress. The sound track is the isolated music track since the foley and dialogue tracks are still being worked out.
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Plant a Tree: A Pop-thru Test
I did an animation tonight using the pop thru ideas mentioned in the previous post. Here is the result.
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RE: Pop-thru Animation Technique Posted by Sven
Sven posted some intriguing ideas about utilizing pop-thru in a project as the actual method of animating for stopmotion. The idea appeals to me especially in terms of time. Wanting to see what it felt like to I threw my character on the stage and tried some poses and here is the result. The total time was about 30 minutes from setting the puppet in front of the camera, transfer of image files, color grading, editing, and rendering out the edited frame sequence from Vegas…in short it was fast. I have other thoughts to post about this later in the week or possibly the weekend.