explorations in audio and moving imagery
ASIFA Atlanta’s Roll Yer Own Animation Festival, with entries from local animators, took place on Monday, May 21, 2007 at 8:00 PM. The venue was “the 5 Spot” at 1123 Euclid Ave in Little 5 Points.
Thanks to Karl, Brett and everyone at ASIFA Atlanta for your work on the festival and for including my film “The Sword of Damocles” in the program. Also, thanks to everyone that attended the festival for your support of our local animation talent.
Forty years ago today Sgt. Pepper was released. My favorite tracks are Getting Better, Lovely Rita, and A Day in the Life. The album is going to be on repeat as my background music when I work on Vitruvius later today. I think Justin and Shel may put videos on in the background when animating. I prefer the tunes. What is your background media of choice when you animate?
P.S. I’ve been busy getting through about 9 minutes of footage since my last post. I’m about half way through now. Must…keep…animating.
Update. I did another test tonight and got the motion smoothed out. This is more of the effect I was aiming to achieve.
Here is my original post and first test:
Another test clip. I am finishing the assembly of the stage curtain and wanted to see how it would animate. The answer…not as smooth as I would like. But at least I got to test some lighting, framing, and curtain behaviors to adjust for the real shoot.
In both Man Drawing a Reclining Woman and the Sword of Damocles I have what looks like ghosting in the animation. My process is to shoot 12 photos for each second of animation then stretch that sequence in Sony Vegas to 24fps. Vegas then blurs every other frame. When analyzing the footage within Vegas frame by frame I would see one clean frame followed by blended frame composed of the the previous frame and the next frame.
What I found out a few months ago is a setting in Sony Vegas called “disable resample” which eliminates the blending and will render each frame cleanly. The result is that every frame is shown twice with no blending. The default in Vegas is set to resample which blends every other frame automatically for image sequence clips. I still haven’t found a way to disable it permanently but in the meantime I am re-mastering my films to remove the ghosting. Jason, on a thread for a related topic at the stopmotionanimation.com forum, mentions the same fix in Adobe Premier by unchecking “blend speed changes”.
Here is my breakdown of the process:
Tonight I continued to put my set pieces back together and started shooting test photos to check alignment and spacing between the background, the stage, and the camera.
