The last time I did a brick film, I was in 8th grade and shot it on VHS. A lot has changed since then. The college where I teach continuing ed classes on YouTube and video editing asked me if I wanted to teach a camp for kids this summer and the first thing that popped into my head was to do brick films. Since it's been so long that I've played with stop motion, I figured I should figure out the workflow. I settled on Eagle Animation as the software. It's free, simple and works with webcams. Perfect for the camp!
I tethered my iPhone to my MacBook Air via bluetooth and used that as my webcam. I storyboarded the the short film, shot it in about two hours, and cut in Resolve. Sound effects are from freesound.org. Originally I was doing a real walk cycle and all that, but it was taking so much time. I wanted to see if there was another way that would work for the kids and came up the hopping.
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