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=Pumpkinwaffle Dec 28, 2011 Student

@00:15Thank you!

DraftMotionby =Pumpkinwaffle

Film & Animation / Animation / Stop Motion / Abstract & Experimental

A quick draft/test of a stop motion project i have. So far it seems to be working rather well. I might try experiment with moving the background, we'll see.
Any feedback/comments/ideas/thoughts/whatevers would be greatly appreciated as the finished version is still being made.

It is rather short i'm sorry about that i went out juggling and got distracted into making another video. (Shadows will be involved in this one)

This month i'm on video mode, so be prepared to see more

This stop motion will feature in my portfolio to apply to art schools, please don't use it yourself.

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~bubastis2 Jul 18, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

This is great!I would loved that it lasts longer!

=Pumpkinwaffle Jul 30, 2012 Student

Thank you

So far I have only done small scale animations, but I'm working on a bigger one at the moment. I may make another in this style but much longer as well.

~friedinsanity Jan 2, 2012

Great stuff man.
Sand animation is something I'd like to try soonish. I always presumed it to be quite tricky to get fluid movements.

=Pumpkinwaffle Jan 2, 2012 Student

That's what i feared too, I did it rather quickly without thinking much, the fps is either 8 or 12 on this one i don't quite remember.

If you think this is fluid then getting fluid motion is easy

Sand animation is really cool, easy enough to do too (no troubles with focus and if it's a little blinky it's because the only light i had couldn't be placed in a decent location, i was at my parents house, without all my tools)

I stopped quickly after starting because i was concerned by the meaning of the animation, as this is potential portfolio material, i'm afraid of hearing a why?...
Sadly enough didn't go with the flow on this one, and now i regret it, i'll think of "plot" and shoot it again soon

~friedinsanity Jan 4, 2012

Hmm. I would recommend using multiple glass sheets stacked one ontop of the other. It's something I've recently found gives very good effects and because of the multiple layers, you can move different things in each, and if you have the camera facing down from above, you can get nice crossover effects. Perhaps with sand this could come in useful for making something with more depth, say, for example, a sandstorm.

=Pumpkinwaffle Jan 6, 2012 Student

Humm definitely

It would take more planning but the results could be outstanding (using transparency and coloured sand, maybe even coloured glass). Some kind of a drawer system would have to be built though, in order to access the layers easily.

I've seen some experiments done with a painted background and some kind of tracing paper, crazy stuff, i'll try to find it again for you

My teacher said that this video was long enough, and most of focus is taken by other projects at the moment, but i'll give sand animation a decent try as soon as i find the time. That pile of todo projects keeps getting bigger... Damn portfolio with its 1 locked theme

~friedinsanity Jan 9, 2012

Ah fear not. Todo projects are tough things to organise. I have many myself. If only time were stretchy!
But now I'm beginning on my portfolio this month, and curiously enough found myself attempt to make a small storybook like your doing yourself - its strange how things turn out!

Actually, the drawer system would be really snazzy. But not necessary cause you could still reach in to each layer if the space was big enough.
Glass is also great for cut-out animation! Are you familiar with Terry Gilliam? He did the cutout animation for Monty Python's Flying Circus in the early 70s. There's a fantastic video I recently found of him explaining his glass technique [link] If you have some free time, give it a watch, there's some good techniques demonstrated.

=Pumpkinwaffle Jan 12, 2012 Student

Yeah, i'm currently working on fishing all those unfinished projects, it's taking up a lot of energy but i'm moving swiftly through it, i'll upload the latest works soon. I really want to finish this dancing wooden dummy animation and the one with glowsticks (if you read my journal you know of the issues i'm having with softwares...).
I'm also working on something pretty big with masks and some weird performance video (you'll eventually get to see what i look like hehe) and i've got a pretty bad cold, making the process tedious, but i'm getting there. I'll upload the latest works soon.

Is that story book you're mentioning the one named "spoons"? regardless if it is, i haven't had yet (i think) the chance to tell you that it's really good and that i really enjoy it, don't give it on it's great! It is strange how things turn out sometimes, in fact i have great fun looking at my working and working my way through the maze in my head trying to find where it originally came from.

Well i'm thinking for the animation to be fully in focus (unless of course you're aiming at a blurred background) the layers would have to be rather close to each other, which is why i though of a drawer system. I loved the Monty Python's animations, i am not familiar at all with the guy who made them though, sounds really interesting. I'd love to give it a watch but the link you sent doesn't seem to be working, the video loads for a second, and then it jumps the youtube's main page, maybe if you can tell me the magic searchwords i can find it.

~friedinsanity Jan 15, 2012

Okay, try this [link]
If not, type in 'terry' 'gilliam' 'animation' into Youtube, its the 15:47 minute one.

I recently tried using multiple glass for some leaf pictures. And you are right, a drawer system is practically vital unless you have a lot of space between the layers. Getting in to move things about is difficult enough, and then if you're not careful you smudge the glass.

Not Spoons no, though thanks for the compliment. That's something I'm working on in my own time, really to create a world I can set a whole range of different bizarre stories in. I haven't done much more on it thanks to all the work from school and stuff, but it's always there in my mind ready to be continued on. When I finish school and get off into art college I intend to work crazily on Spoons or some similar comic story, but til June I'm cooped up a bit on intense English and Geography aside from my other projects.

No, this book is a little story about dreams, only 8-9 pages, for a final response to load of work based on dreams and sleeping.

I'm terrible at reading journals, I haven't read any for ages. I follow a lot of people so journals and things build up, and my priorities when coming on DA are the art and my messages. I'll go and find em. (Geez, this is a long message) Well best of luck on all your projects. This performance piece sounds most intriguing..

~XxiHeartYou22xX Dec 26, 2011 Student Artist

@00:15thats really cool!

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