A few days or weeks ago Jeannette suggested that we try to meld her love of making small clay figures with my love of horrible homemade stop-motion animation in holiday-y clip.
After weeks of procrastination (or in this case actually do more important things) we finally got around to it last night. After about an hour of production time (including the creation of the figures and set, script conception and writing, principal photography, and editing) we were able to crank out the following 1:05 second clip.
[Embedded video]
Hope it was worth the minute.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Parade of Books
A few weeks ago I noticed that the Dalhousie Libraries were going to be hosting a video contest with an e-reader as the grand prize. Not surprisingly, to enter the contest one had to create and submit a video "telling us why you love the Dal Libraries."
At first I didn't think that this would be the contest for me, mainly because I couldn't think of a good way of approaching the topic. Eventually I settled on some kind of stop-motion/time-lapse content. Of course, that isn't really enough of an idea to build a video so I had to think about it for a few more days.
I eventually decided to go with a stop-motion thing that would then convey a message about the library.
Anyway, I decided to give it a shot this afternoon and this is what I came up with.
[Embedded video]
Definitely not the best stop-motion work, but considering that no planning went into the shooting of this video I think it turned out relatively well.
They are planning on releasing the results in early March. If I hear back from the contest administrators I will be sure to let you know by what margin I lost.
Score
Cameron 39
Neil 0
At first I didn't think that this would be the contest for me, mainly because I couldn't think of a good way of approaching the topic. Eventually I settled on some kind of stop-motion/time-lapse content. Of course, that isn't really enough of an idea to build a video so I had to think about it for a few more days.
I eventually decided to go with a stop-motion thing that would then convey a message about the library.
Anyway, I decided to give it a shot this afternoon and this is what I came up with.
[Embedded video]
Definitely not the best stop-motion work, but considering that no planning went into the shooting of this video I think it turned out relatively well.
They are planning on releasing the results in early March. If I hear back from the contest administrators I will be sure to let you know by what margin I lost.
Score
Cameron 39
Neil 0
Sunday, February 13, 2011
I've been waiting a long time for this
Today I finally downloaded an easy-to-use animated .gif making program. No longer will I have to scour the web looking for free services that allow me litte creative control over my .gifs.
As you can see, I am already putting my time and this program to good use.
Maybe part of the problem is that animated .gifs lend themselves easily to triviality. I will have to find a way of finding a more useful application for this powerful technology.
Score
Cameron 37
Neil 0
As you can see, I am already putting my time and this program to good use.
Maybe part of the problem is that animated .gifs lend themselves easily to triviality. I will have to find a way of finding a more useful application for this powerful technology.
Score
Cameron 37
Neil 0
Monday, February 02, 2009
A Few Quick Notes 267
-Today, as predicted, has been a few degrees above zero. Fortunately, I managed to avoid much of the slush by heading in to school early. If the predictions turn out to be right, we could be in for quite a snowfall (and now a storm) here tomorrow, and if things keep going as they have been with closures and such, we could see another round of university and school closures in anticipation of the predicted snowfall.
-To continue the last topic, I think that I would rather not have a snow day tomorrow, though I am sure I could deal with one if it was thrust upon me.
-Just moments ago I learned that one of my favourite This American Life contributors, Scott Carrier, is now an assistant professor at Utah Valley University. Maybe this explains why he has been contributing to This American Life less frequently (though he does seem to still be contributing to Hearing Voices with some regularity).
-I have been doing so much reading about Canadian federalism in the past few weeks that it has started to creep into my dreams. Fortunately, my federalism dreams seem to be much more pleasant that my cataloguing nightmares of library school.
-I managed to get through my first lecture today, though there was a room change that kind of threw me off my game. I guess I now continue my preparations for Wednesday's lecture.
-And for those of you with 30 seconds to kill, feel free to check this out. If you don't have an extra 30 seconds, it probably isn't worth your while (nothing happens, just thought the internet needed some more filler).
Blog-off
Cameron: 3
Neil: 0
-To continue the last topic, I think that I would rather not have a snow day tomorrow, though I am sure I could deal with one if it was thrust upon me.
-Just moments ago I learned that one of my favourite This American Life contributors, Scott Carrier, is now an assistant professor at Utah Valley University. Maybe this explains why he has been contributing to This American Life less frequently (though he does seem to still be contributing to Hearing Voices with some regularity).
-I have been doing so much reading about Canadian federalism in the past few weeks that it has started to creep into my dreams. Fortunately, my federalism dreams seem to be much more pleasant that my cataloguing nightmares of library school.
-I managed to get through my first lecture today, though there was a room change that kind of threw me off my game. I guess I now continue my preparations for Wednesday's lecture.
-And for those of you with 30 seconds to kill, feel free to check this out. If you don't have an extra 30 seconds, it probably isn't worth your while (nothing happens, just thought the internet needed some more filler).
Blog-off
Cameron: 3
Neil: 0
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Maybe About Something
Last night, while I was trying to study, I finally came with something that I could do with the flattened beer bottle caps that I have been collecting for the past number of months.
It seemed like a stop-motion film with the bottle caps was the obvious solution.
I grabbed my digital camera and tripod and started sticking the bottle caps to the wall and taking pictures between each new cap being attached to the wall.
While the final product isn’t much, it was fun to play around with. Even if for no other reason that for my own personal enjoyment, I think I may try to make more of these in the future.
Below is an embedded version of the clip.
It seemed like a stop-motion film with the bottle caps was the obvious solution.
I grabbed my digital camera and tripod and started sticking the bottle caps to the wall and taking pictures between each new cap being attached to the wall.
While the final product isn’t much, it was fun to play around with. Even if for no other reason that for my own personal enjoyment, I think I may try to make more of these in the future.
Below is an embedded version of the clip.
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