The Vaults
May 22nd, 2007 by oblong picturesI’ve always been a big fan of stop-motion animation, from Ray Harryhausen to Nick Park, but it never occurred to me that it was something I could do myself.
I was inspired to start when a work colleague brought a cheap l’Espion digital camera into the office. In the course of playing about with it, he made a very short and slightly ropy film of a toy Mike Wazowski (from Monsters Inc) eating a Post-It note.
I was amazed that it could be so simple to produce a film, and I went straight out and had a good old google for more information. The next thing I knew, I had a camera, some free software and my old childhood LEGO collection and I was away.
The films below were all done under poor lighting conditions with a l’Espion camera, so bear with me. They’re mostly tests that I did to get the hang of animation and/or effects. They’re all encoded with DivX 5.0.2 (you can download the latest DivX codec from www.divx.com). Apologies to Mac users and anyone else with an irrational dislike of DivX - I don’t intend to convert these to any other format because life really is too short.
I don’t think any of these are over 10 seconds long. Enjoy.
- My very first animation - Riverdance
- My first walk cycle
- My first run cycle
- A Mexican wave - works best if you loop it
- Busting the phat beats
- An attempt at animating 4 characters at once
- Fun with chairs
- My first fx shot
- The obligatory light sabre fight
- My first drunken stagger cycle
- Zombie rising from the grave
- A ghostly skeleton menaces an unsuspecting victim
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July 23rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
Dammint, i cant watch them on my Vista. What can I do to watch them?
July 29th, 2008 at 1:50 am
I actually liked those. You were big on classic space, weren’t you?
August 6th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Your films are well carried out, you have really original ideas, the animation of your characters is very expressive, I learns much looking your work.
edit : sorry for my english :S
August 8th, 2008 at 7:04 am
haha great i love the Fun With Chairs one i might have to make it!