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Stop Frame Project

Posted by Doki - May 30th, 2008


Just thought I'd offer a small update on a project I have been slowly chipping away at for a while now. It's an experimental stop-frame video that I've been animating using my digital SLR camera. It's the first animation project I've tried with it (even though I've had it for 2 years) and I am amazed with the quality of the thing - especially for capturing light. Below are a few screenshots that look strange, but don't give much away because a few of them will flash by very quickly.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/d oki66/IMG_0027.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/d oki66/IMG_0085.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/d oki66/IMG_0475.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/d oki66/IMG_0589.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/d oki66/IMG_0614.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/d oki66/IMG_0938.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/d oki66/IMG_2240.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/d oki66/IMG_4253.jpg

It would be cool to upload this to NG when it's ready (as well as youtube) but I'm really not sure how to prepare it as an swf and have it still look ok. Any help on that matter would be appreciated

Stop Frame Project


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Sexy, I'm looking forward to it!

I've never seen such a quick comment!

is saladfingers in it? lol

This looks like it's going to be the most twisted, and wierdest thing in the world!!

The two that freak me out the most is the first with the Pig dude, and the one where the hand is holding the head, and the walls are covered in like bloody newspapers.
O_o

where do you find all of the masks and heads and sometimes bugs you use?

This time I struck gold! In the house that I rent, the garage is so packed with old junk that you literally have to climb right over it to get in. Some of it has been there since the 1980s.

Looks amazing!
That first image makes me so excited.

Man, you have on weird mind.

*one weird

Need... edit... button...

as long as you tell us where to go to see it i dont care where it is :)

those images are very interesting I can't wait until it's finished

Is it going to be animated to another Aphex Twin song? Loved some of your other experimental films...

I say, fuck it. Just embed the movie into the flash, and email the .swf to Tom, and he will add it to NG. Fuck that 10k limit ;P

Too bad we can't have streaming flvs on NG though, eh? Lookin' forward to see what crawls out of your mind next ;)

I probably will make the music myself because I'm sick of not owning the full copyrights to most of my work....or use some music that's been donated.

Great work, keep it up and can't wait to see it.

Stop motion is an amazing medium! It's one of my hobbies.

To save it as a SWF you could try editing your image sequence in AfterEffects then exporting it out as an SWF.

I could do but it'd need to have a preloader.

Wow, looks like it'll be very weird, creative, and perhaps scary? The photos have a nice look to them, I'm anxious to see the final result!

Everyone's going to be like "GURR, IT BE SCARY WHY ON FRUNT PAIG". Good luck, I can't wait.

Looks like a breath of fresh air, im really looking forward to it.

As for compression for swf, id say Knox is the guy to talk too, he seems to have compression pretty well mastered. Atleast compared to most other people here.

yaaay

very excited about this!

Brilliant. I love your stopmotion videos.

Well, you couldn't upload it to youtube with "ok" looking quality either. Maybe just upload it with the best quality you can (that doesn't boost the upload limit) and add a link in the menu/preloader to a high quality file?

great stuff, i remember watching all your older animations on fat-pie that are stop motion. have you seen 'LichtFaktor', they make some insane light photograhpy animations that look alot like that last piccy. keep up the amazing work, look foward to it

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