Monday, 26 April 2010
Work Set-up
05:09 | 
Posted by
Jack Witherden
This is my work area for the animation. I have a DV Camera set up on a tripod which captures the figure against a bluescreen background and streams it via Firewire to the Macbook. I used the Mac book because while my MOVs are rendering out from After Effects on my imac, it will not prehibit me from carrying on with capturing the next scene. The area where the figure is actually shot benefits from natural light which, from some research on tips for stop motion, is best to get an even source.
Here is my first set up when creating my test animation with bluetack. A high quality webcam is used here to stream the live feed into my imac in which i can then shoot the scene frame by frame.
Lastly below are two images of my shoot for the backgrounds scenes in which the figure will be jumping two dimensionally across each media. The stone i got from a garden centre is very heavy and it may be a challenge to photograph each shot with the precision of something lighter. The parchment i made myself from an old trick i learned to stain paper with tea bags and blot coffee granules to give the effect as shown. The non featured medium here is the notepad which i am yet still to purchase however that should be relatively easy to shoot apart from the animation of the cover lifting. I will be using a lot of blue-tack to hold it in position whilst i shoot the frames.
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