Diy Animation

[jennypagla]

A short animation can take hours or days (or weeks! or months!) and you don't want the light to be flickering up and down in your final product. You'll need a working surface, whether it be a table or two big speakers pushed together like in my last project! Get about 3 lights and light your surface evenly so there isn't any dark shadows. Household 60 or 100 watts will work well for video or Kodak Ektachrome film, higher ones might be needed for Kodachrome film. Your camera needs to have a macro lens. This just means it can focus on something a couple inches away (or close up in zoom). Most video cameras do this fairly well. You'll have to check to see if your Super 8 camera has a macro feature on the lens.

When animating, you'll want to set your camera to 1 frame per every time you hit the record button ("Frame by Frame" or "Stop Animation"). On Super 8 cameras this is easily done if they have the feature. If they don't you'll have to use a remote or plunger that will allow you to record no more than 3 frames each time you click it. Professional animators use 1 frame per movement with 24 frames per second. I've found that even 2 or 3 frames per movement is ok. If you want a character to turn 360 degrees in place in 1 ½ seconds you'll <click, click> then move the character a fraction, then <click,click> and more them again and so on and so on until you've clicked 36 frames altogether. Remember to step back out of the lights when you're recording! It will look bad if you don't get out of the way!

[dmoria]

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