Stop-Motion Video

[alan]

This is not Disney-related, but good fun and a great family project.

My daughter came to me this morning wanting to take some photos of her Sylvanian Family dolls that she got for Christmas. We ended up making a small stop-motion video of them - aparently two of them wanted to get married and the whole family was there for the event!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atp/4241063520/

I set up my Canon 350D (Rebel XT) on a tripod, with a flash (Canon 580EX) and a diffuser. I adjusted the focus points so that the rabbit who was officiating at the service was the point of focus, and made sure that she never moved. I had a remote control shutter release for the camera, so I was able to take photographs without actually touching the camera and risking moving it.

After that, it was just a case of moving the characters a small amount, and pressing the remote control. The sequence has 221 photographs, each 0.1s long (plus the title and the fade-out at the end).

All in all, it took around an hour to an hour and a half, plus another half hour to import the images and process them in Vegas Movie Factory.

Great fun!

regards,
/alan

 

[MarkBarbieri]

That looks like fun (and a lot of work).

We did something similar once. We set up the camera to take pictures at regular intervals while our pergola was being built. The result is a video of very fast builders.

I also did a stop action video of a 1 pound blob of Thinking Putty dripping from a cabinet. Alas, I know longer have a copy of that video.

 

[PhotographyDR]

I have wanted to do something similar. Great execution