On animation
dinsdag, augustus 26th, 2008 | Author: Michiel Vaernewijck
Hi my name is Stijn Heirstrate. I make brickfilms and in this post I’m going to tell you more about animation.
What do you need?
- lamps, 2 will do
- a camera with decent quality (webcams can be used for animations and you can get a pretty good one (5 MP) for less than 50 dollar)
- a good computer
- lots of space next to your desk
-material you want to animate with, for example: plasticine, or what I personally use, LEGO (which is called brickfilming)
- and most important: patience
If you have your story and set ready you first:
- put on some dark clothes (helps against flickers)
- set up your lamps before your set
-make sure that your room is totally dark and that the only light in the room is coming from your 2 lamps
Then you start animating.
You either take photo’s directly from a webcam, and load the frames onto your computer, or youconnect your camera to your computer (driver needed!) and open up your frame capture. (there exists free software for this, there’ll be a post on this soon)
Then you can take frames directly from your camera. When done animating, the software makes all the frames into 1 video file.
This is the best and easiest way to animate.
Yes and if you want to have a decent frame rate, then just animate at 15 frames per second
It’s pretty easy and looks good.
Want to see some of my animations?
Go to www.youtube.com/darkman13forever
Want to find a bit out about brickfilming? (LEGO animations)
Go to www.brickfilms.com/resources.php
Want to talk and communicate, help or be helped by brickfilmers?
Go to http://www.bricksinmotion.com/refugeecamp/
Post written by: Stijn Heirstrate
Many thanks!
