archived-videos First try at experimental stop motion

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Inri

Hello, I'll just go ahead and copy the youtube information and add some.

This is a school project, it's a stop motion film featureing both mannequins and real people.
At the start it was loosely based on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, but it turned out to be a dreamlike story about regret and guilt.
The clip is supposed to be surreal, and there is no "real" story in it. I hope you can enjoy it and interpret it in a personal way. This is not the final version.

I'm posting it on this forum to get some more comments on it, and maybe some directions what i could change or add.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV9nzcL1whg

Please enjoy, and don't be shy with the comments!
 
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Interesting first go, man. I like the color treatments. The animation itself is pretty rough. To salvage what yu have, you can try speeding it up significantly. Bottom line is you've got too many frames per pose.
 
grinner said:
Interesting first go, man. I like the color treatments. The animation itself is pretty rough. To salvage what yu have, you can try speeding it up significantly. Bottom line is you've got too many frames per pose.
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Thank you very much for your input! I did sort of aim a rough look, but that might not be everyones piece of cake, but I can absolutely see what you mean. I'll give speeding it up a go just to see how it would look, but I can't be bothered to fight with Premiere right now, it is getting sort of late.
 
Ya just go to motion, enter your speed and render. Don't overthink it. You took the time to model and shoot everything. Post will always be your cheapest comodity. Don't let the fact that you are tired when ya get there be the deciding factor on your project's potential. That's where you can make it perfect and it's the only stage of the whole process you have that kind of control.
 
terrific music. Amazing visuals. Really nice work. Could you give me technical specs of how it is done? I am completely blown away with this.
 
grinner said:
Ya just go to motion, enter your speed and render. Don't overthink it. You took the time to model and shoot everything. Post will always be your cheapest comodity. Don't let the fact that you are tired when ya get there be the deciding factor on your project's potential. That's where you can make it perfect and it's the only stage of the whole process you have that kind of control.
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Rendering as we speak, the "flashes" might be a little to quick now though, i'll have to fine tune that.

Zensteve said:
That was great. :cool:
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Thank you!

johngalt said:
terrific music. Amazing visuals. Really nice work. Could you give me technical specs of how it is done? I am completely blown away with this.
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Sure, what do you want to know? I can start of by saying that the camera was a standard Canon EOS 1000D, with a standard lens. I acquired the mannequins from a local shop (the mannequins are about 40 years old, that's kind of cool), the "actor" is a friend. We shot the whole thing in about a week, I had written a very loose scrip and then improvised most of the action on set. Afterwards I used Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to edit all the pictures at once, I toned down all colours but red to get the desired effect, then i popped all the pictures in Premiere and started editing. Please tell me if there is anything specific you want to know.
 
Inri said:
Rendering as we speak, the "flashes" might be a little to quick now though, i'll have to fine tune that.
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agreed. You can do that by pulling the oroginal frames. It'll look awesome.
I hope you had a blast making this one, man.
 
grinner said:
agreed. You can do that by pulling the oroginal frames. It'll look awesome.
I hope you had a blast making this one, man.
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Do you think you could explain that? Pulling the original frames?

Yeah, it turned out better than i first thought as well, so that is nice.:)
 
I just meant instead of having those quick cuts of the wolf's face twice as fast, pull em from the raw elements so they are like they are now... but cut into motion that is much faster/smoother.
 
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