Hi,
We need advice on how to achieve a props rig for our film, Paint Me Free. The rig is only used for about 30 seconds at the end of the film:
-Actor is sitting on a bed beside a painting easel
-The painting easel has about 100 easel papers on it
-The actor pulls the clamp on top of the easel holding the papers to the easel
-The papers fall to the ground one by one
The papers should fall fast enough so that if one looked at the easel as they were falling, it would look like an animation. This is akin to a large flip book.
We know that we can do it through stop-motion, but we are interested in having the actor in the shot and a push into the frame with both the actor and the easel.
Also, if we were to do it in panels, we would have to do the pan in with a precise mechanized device with the actor and the easel separately. There isn't enough in the budget to afford one of these devices.
We need each paper to fall individually at around 12-15 frames per second.
What we need to know:
We need to have these papers fall at a reasonable rate, one at a time. We are interested in moving in a direction away from separate panels, and stop-motion. We will use those as a last resort.
If you know of any way that we can rig it so that these papers fall, let us know. Also if you need to see the storyboard to get a better understanding, I can email you those.
Note: We only need about 100 - 200 frames on the easel, the rest of the animation (about 300 more frames) will be done in post. We will achieve this through the push into the easel, because eventually when the actor leaves the screen and the papers take up the frame, we can switch to the post-production version.
Thanks.
We need advice on how to achieve a props rig for our film, Paint Me Free. The rig is only used for about 30 seconds at the end of the film:
-Actor is sitting on a bed beside a painting easel
-The painting easel has about 100 easel papers on it
-The actor pulls the clamp on top of the easel holding the papers to the easel
-The papers fall to the ground one by one
The papers should fall fast enough so that if one looked at the easel as they were falling, it would look like an animation. This is akin to a large flip book.
We know that we can do it through stop-motion, but we are interested in having the actor in the shot and a push into the frame with both the actor and the easel.
Also, if we were to do it in panels, we would have to do the pan in with a precise mechanized device with the actor and the easel separately. There isn't enough in the budget to afford one of these devices.
We need each paper to fall individually at around 12-15 frames per second.
What we need to know:
We need to have these papers fall at a reasonable rate, one at a time. We are interested in moving in a direction away from separate panels, and stop-motion. We will use those as a last resort.
If you know of any way that we can rig it so that these papers fall, let us know. Also if you need to see the storyboard to get a better understanding, I can email you those.
Note: We only need about 100 - 200 frames on the easel, the rest of the animation (about 300 more frames) will be done in post. We will achieve this through the push into the easel, because eventually when the actor leaves the screen and the papers take up the frame, we can switch to the post-production version.
Thanks.