My second stopmotion film, “The Sword of Damocles”, is now complete. The date on my three page draft outline for Damocles reads November 25, 2006. I posted my intention of doing the Damocles project for StopMoShorts on November 28th (see previous post). It is now midnight December 19th and I have finished encoding the QuickTime file for submission to the StopMoShorts site. [Although, I am having a bit of a problem uploading it to StopMoShorts tonight which kind of concerns me.]

It was quite an exercise and I learned a lot of little things that should help me with other projects including Vitruvius. I also, think I got a little carried away as the film ended up being just over 6 minutes long. I plan to post more info about the production of the film after the holidays and new year’s activities. I also plan to revisit the footage to render a DVD resolution and HD resolution version for future use.

…to work on my StopMoShorts.com entry for December. The three items are sword, fear, and cave.

I’m stretching it a bit but hopefully it will work out. I’ll be spending every free hour shooting “Damocles” until the last week in December. The plan is to move quickly and ignore mistakes and imperfections which should make for an interesting exercise. As far as Vitruvius goes, I finished some shots last week and progress continues on the music score. Vitruvius postings will resume in January.