Stop motion animation?!
Question: Stop motion animation!?
For my photography class, I have to make a stop motion animation!. I chose to do one that involves several frames where the object is in mid-air!.
How can I go about doing this!? I guess I could use string, but are there any other suggestions!?
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How can I go about doing this!? I guess I could use string, but are there any other suggestions!?
How do professionals do it!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
You chose one of the more difficult things to do in stop motion!.
You have to find a way to suspend your object in the air!. If you're good with Photoshop and digital imaging, you can use it to remove any kind of suspension system you build or use to keep your character in the air while you take you images!. Some stop motion animators use string (two strings, otherwise your person will just spin around on one wire and you won't be able to control the direction he's facing) or some kind of stiff arm (metal or wood rod) that connects directly to the character!. Then you have to remove the string or rig from your images!. Usually you'd take a photo of your scene with no rig or car in it to use as a reference for the clone stamp tool or whatever you'd use in Photoshop!.
Old school animators who worked before computers would use see-through plastic boxes to prop up objects in the air!. If the object is only in the air for a split second or a very short time, you don't usually notice the plastic box because of the action going on in the scene!. If an object is in the air for a fairly long time, they'd use thin string like fishing wire!. They'd leave it in the scene since the string was so thin you wouldn't notice it, or if you did it wasn't that big of a deal because the wire was so thin and see through!.
Fabric stores sell a sewing string called invisible string which is good for this kind of stuff, since it doesn't reflect light like plasticy fishing wire and takes on the color of whatever's behind it!.
Another tactic may be to fake it of your shot allows it!. For example, if your scene involves a cut away shot to where the object is just moving across clear blue sky, then you can make the floor of your scene blue and move the object across it while shooting downwards from above!. You still might have to do some photoshop work to remove shadows from lighting though!.
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You have to find a way to suspend your object in the air!. If you're good with Photoshop and digital imaging, you can use it to remove any kind of suspension system you build or use to keep your character in the air while you take you images!. Some stop motion animators use string (two strings, otherwise your person will just spin around on one wire and you won't be able to control the direction he's facing) or some kind of stiff arm (metal or wood rod) that connects directly to the character!. Then you have to remove the string or rig from your images!. Usually you'd take a photo of your scene with no rig or car in it to use as a reference for the clone stamp tool or whatever you'd use in Photoshop!.
Old school animators who worked before computers would use see-through plastic boxes to prop up objects in the air!. If the object is only in the air for a split second or a very short time, you don't usually notice the plastic box because of the action going on in the scene!. If an object is in the air for a fairly long time, they'd use thin string like fishing wire!. They'd leave it in the scene since the string was so thin you wouldn't notice it, or if you did it wasn't that big of a deal because the wire was so thin and see through!.
Fabric stores sell a sewing string called invisible string which is good for this kind of stuff, since it doesn't reflect light like plasticy fishing wire and takes on the color of whatever's behind it!.
Another tactic may be to fake it of your shot allows it!. For example, if your scene involves a cut away shot to where the object is just moving across clear blue sky, then you can make the floor of your scene blue and move the object across it while shooting downwards from above!. You still might have to do some photoshop work to remove shadows from lighting though!.
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