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Sep. 7th, 2009 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mipeltajaPhew, so today I spent several hours in a dark, stuffy room shooting my animation.
I should've worn a T-shirt to school today. That room was like a sauna.
So I made a pit stop at Arnolds on the way home. I have no clue how their smoothies feel cooler than ice cream, but they're exactly the right size and temperature to cool me down when I feel I'm close to boiling point.
So anyway, about the animation class.
Last Thursday, we were introduced to a progam called iStop Motion. As you might've quessed, the program is for Mac.
What you do is you hook a digital video camera up to the mac via Firewire. Then you point the camera at the scene you're shooting. You can see what the camera sees on the computer screen and taking pictures is as simple as hitting a key on the keyboard. You need not touch the camera at all once it's positioned, which is ideal, because you wouldn't want the camera to move a fraction of an inch during the shooting.
Most people in my class decided to do their stop motion animation with 3D figurines made out of modelling clay and metal wire. I made mine with 2D characters made of pieces of paper. I moved the pieces in front of the camera with the aid of a pair of tweezers. It's tough work to keep the pieces you don't want to move from moving while simultaneously remembering to move everything you want to be moving. I had to reshoot a handful of frames because I hadn't moved a hand here or a jaw there.
I got the whole of the shooting done today, tough, and I'm moving to editing tomorrow.
I should've worn a T-shirt to school today. That room was like a sauna.
So I made a pit stop at Arnolds on the way home. I have no clue how their smoothies feel cooler than ice cream, but they're exactly the right size and temperature to cool me down when I feel I'm close to boiling point.
So anyway, about the animation class.
Last Thursday, we were introduced to a progam called iStop Motion. As you might've quessed, the program is for Mac.
What you do is you hook a digital video camera up to the mac via Firewire. Then you point the camera at the scene you're shooting. You can see what the camera sees on the computer screen and taking pictures is as simple as hitting a key on the keyboard. You need not touch the camera at all once it's positioned, which is ideal, because you wouldn't want the camera to move a fraction of an inch during the shooting.
Most people in my class decided to do their stop motion animation with 3D figurines made out of modelling clay and metal wire. I made mine with 2D characters made of pieces of paper. I moved the pieces in front of the camera with the aid of a pair of tweezers. It's tough work to keep the pieces you don't want to move from moving while simultaneously remembering to move everything you want to be moving. I had to reshoot a handful of frames because I hadn't moved a hand here or a jaw there.
I got the whole of the shooting done today, tough, and I'm moving to editing tomorrow.
