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.
Category: Projects
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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.
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Camera Dolly – Test Shots
I tried out the dolly and confirmed that the current tripod mount is unstable…although I kind of like the uneven quality of the movement. I’ll probably try to mount the whole track on something more stable.
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Camera Dolly 2008
Recently I read some information about camera rigs and the concepts found in model railroad designs inspired me. So, I browsed the “orange” home improvement store and found some items to build a dolly over the weekend.
All photos are on the Flickr site (click the photo to see them). You can probably get the idea from the pics without further description but post a comment if you have any particular questions and I can upate the info.
Pros: It seems to work pretty good.
A test video is coming soon.
Cons: The tripod mount is too unstable and results in camera shake. Putting the rig on a firm stand should do the trick.