Jay60p Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 A few video experiments to try at home: Slow motion and reverse motion: Water drops Remote control toys (RC cars, helicopters, etc) Collapsing constructions of blocks, toys, dominoes, etc… Put on a gorilla suit and hit a pile of bones with a large femur. Stop motion animation: Clay (Gumby, Wallace & Gromit). Toy figures with armatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1KCyU1JEU Lego blocks building themselves. Drawing on paper (animate the progress of a piece of flat art) Moving sand/small bits of stuff in patterns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=578Xm6bgMdQ Best to use a tripod, or a copy stand (I use an old enlarger stand), unchanging light source, and a remote control to avoid touching the camera. Timelapse, (cameras with interval recording) Such as, watch a window’s sunlight move across a room, ice cubes melting, traffic at intersections. I use vintage SLR lenses for stop motion & timelapse since the apertures and focus cannot be inadvertently changed by the camera. To get the classic slow shutter blur for fast moving objects I put two polarizers on the lens and rotate one to darken the image to the point where I can use one second exposures. Variable neutral density filters should do the same thing. (Fuji owners: 1)My Fuji camera kit lens will stop down at each frame and then open up again until the next frame. There is a small difference in the actual aperture that is set each time which can result in a small amount of flicker. Manual lenses with adapters avoid this. 2) One thing that can make my X-T3 skip a frame is setting the viewfinder to come on only when you put your eye to it. I thought I could save battery power by having LCD & EVF off until I put my eye to the viewfinder, but I found frames were being skipped about as often as I looked through the EVF, so I think making the EVF turn on can interrupt the interval recording.) BTM_Pix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzynormal Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 I have a 10 year old werewolf horror film that's absolutely horrible. Always wanted to re-edit it. I've also always wanted to create some stop-motion for it, or something similar to make the film more campy and silly than it already is. I wonder if I could make 3D CGI to look like Harryhausen character animation? Any advice from anyone that dabbles in that realm? Seems like with all the apps out there right now it might not be too difficult. BTW, I actually tried to do old-school stop motion, went as far as creating a foam werewolf with bendable armature and shot scenes with it, but it looked too trashy and lousy to be campy, if that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowfun Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 But don’t do this... I offered to film my wife doing a short (3 minutes) introduction to her immunology lecture next week (all lectures are currently online). Easy - a green screen and I had some serology testing footage for the background. Filmed it. Packed everything away. Opened Resolve... she was wearing a top with green stripes... Just finished take two... Mark Romero 2, leslie and BTM_Pix 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimor Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 High-speed photography is a fun and easy experiment. A few years ago I took photos in a dark room, in which within a long exposure (say 2 seconds) the camera flash towards a very short exposure (1sec / 35,000). Everything with cheap and homemade materials (based on arduino). In the end I achieved my purpose of stopping a bullet in the air. (Both balloons are in the first moment of their explosion) BTM_Pix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no_connection Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 I did some flash triggering of things dropping into a water tank some years ago. Candles work pretty well for that. Had optic trigger and an old HP signal/trigger generator to adjust timing. Camera was Hasselblad something with digital back. And before you consider doing it in the living room let me tell you that bathroom is the better alternative. Grimor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyalinejim Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Test all your lenses. Shoot the same scene in unchanging light at various focal lengths, both wide open and stopped down. Check for sharpness in centre and corners, vignetting, distortion, bokeh. Hours and hours of distraction 😆 Mark Romero 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay60p Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 On 3/26/2020 at 11:49 AM, Jay60p said: Stop motion animation: Clay (Gumby, Wallace & Gromit). Toy figures with armatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1KCyU1JEU Lego blocks building themselves. Drawing on paper (animate the progress of a piece of flat art) Moving sand/small bits of stuff in patterns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=578Xm6bgMdQ OOPS! I grabbed these examples to fast, these Jan Svankmajer animations are too dark for inspiring animations with the kids at home! These are better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FAt7ze-QLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwUh7nbkyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtpRMsDuH74 and one of my favorites, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzvqmoPu2H4 As for clay, just grab a big lump and start twisting it into random shapes and see what happens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzynormal Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 11 hours ago, hyalinejim said: Hours and hours of distraction Hours and hours of diffraction. hyalinejim, Grimor, TrueIndigo and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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